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ref-manual: add potential of parallelism to defn of "Task"

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Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <foss@0leil.ṅet>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -367,10 +367,16 @@ universal, the list includes them just in case:
section in the Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual.
:term:`Task`
A unit of execution for BitBake (e.g.
A per-recipe unit of execution for BitBake (e.g.
:ref:`ref-tasks-compile`,
:ref:`ref-tasks-fetch`,
:ref:`ref-tasks-patch`, and so forth).
One of the major benefits of the build system is that, since each
recipe will typically spawn the execution of numerous tasks,
it is entirely possible that many tasks can execute in parallel,
either tasks from separate recipes or independent tasks within
the same recipe, potentially up to the parallelism of your
build system.
:term:`Toaster`
A web interface to the Yocto Project's :term:`OpenEmbedded Build System`.