Parallel activity not working as expected

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As per the discussion in the below link

The Parallel activity: a horizontal sequence?

I’ve been experimenting with this activity, but it doesn’t actually seem to do anything truly parallel for me. Instead, it appears to behave exactly like a sequence, with the activities being executed from left to right. The Microsoft documentation on this activity states that it should be able to do multiple things at the same time. I’ve searched the forum and downloaded some .xaml examples but even then, the code is not actually executed in a parallel manner. The only advantage I can see with…