Async — non-blocking I/O. Parallel — concurrent CPU.
Async:
Parallel:
1// Async2var task1 = HttpClient.GetAsync(url1);3var task2 = HttpClient.GetAsync(url2);4await Task.WhenAll(task1, task2);56// Parallel7Parallel.For(0, 100, i =>8{9 HeavyComputation(i);10});
Key: Async for I/O, Parallel for CPU.