The Rules of Optimization: Why So Many Performance Efforts Fail (hackernoon.com) 23 points by rmnoon 9y ago ↗ HN
[–] rmnoon 9y ago ↗ I don't think most new engineers intuitively grasp the ramifications of Amdahl's Law:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_lawIt 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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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.