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I have a dissenting opinion: Amdahl's law is obvious and therefore it doesn't need to be explicitly taught.
by frozenport 11y ago
I have a dissenting opinion: Amdahl's law is obvious and therefore it doesn't need to be explicitly taught.
- taneq 11y agoI agree with your (apparently unpopular) opinion. I'd never heard of this as a named law before, but it's just a restatement of critical path analysis in a computing context.
- privong 11y ago> I agree with your (apparently unpopular) opinion. I'd never heard of this as a named law before, but it's just a restatement of critical path analysis in a computing context. I suspect it's one of those things that seems obvious in hindsight or in the context of how computers work today. But when it was first discussed, it may not have been as obvious.
- frozenport 11y agoI understand it was used as a marketing punchline. Further, the gripe that systems wouldn't scale turned out to be a challenge rather than a death sentence.