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  • Seems okay to me.... what do you expect, and especially ... what is your real world problem ? echo calls are probably just pretty fast ... Commented Sep 4, 2020 at 10:17
  • @pLumo I think I am doing something wrong but cant figure out I updated my question and I expect similar behavior from those2 commands Commented Sep 4, 2020 at 10:57
  • parallel output is sequential because it captures the processes output and prints it only when that process is finished, unlike xargs which let the processes print output immediately. Commented Sep 4, 2020 at 11:00
  • ok ok I see but it is actually doing stuff in parallel. right? Commented Sep 4, 2020 at 11:01
  • sure it does, you can check that using processes you know that take some time, e.g. sleep. Commented Sep 4, 2020 at 11:13