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Comment by the_data_nerd

9 hours ago

You are not actually working in parallel. You are making the cost of stopping one thing near zero. In git, pausing A for B costs a rebase. In jj, you edit B, the stack reflows, you keep going. That is the whole thing. Context switches get cheap so you take them.

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