The Rules of Optimization: Why So Many Performance Efforts Fail (opens in new tab)

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23 pointsrmnoon9y ago1 comments

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I don't think most new engineers intuitively grasp the ramifications of Amdahl's Law:

It really doesn't matter if you can make an individual task 1000x faster if your program only spends 1% of its time doing that task.

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23 pointsrmnoon9y ago1 comments

rmnoonOP9y ago

I don't think most new engineers intuitively grasp the ramifications of Amdahl's Law:

It really doesn't matter if you can make an individual task 1000x faster if your program only spends 1% of its time doing that task.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse