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Isn't Amdahl's law only applicable to systems that some parallelism?
by Bootvis 5y ago
Isn't Amdahl's law only applicable to systems that some parallelism?
- edflsafoiewq 5y agoAmdahl's law basically says when you speed up part of a task, the overall speedup is limited by the part you didn't speed up. The speedup doesn't have to come from parallelism.
- CUViper 5y agoIt can be applied more generally. If you're focusing on improving the performance of something that only takes 10% of your time, then the other 90% will still dominate.
- Bootvis 5y agoAha, I see. If you’re in a race where every microsecond counts you would still care about there 10% after you’ve made sure that the 90% can’t be further optimized.