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Foil 38 Amdahl's law for Real World Parallel Processing
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AMDAHL"s LAW or
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Says that
Speedup S is small if efficiency e small
or for Hadrian's wall
equivalently S is small if length l small
But this is irrelevant as we do not need parallel processing unless problem big!
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