Amdahl's Law in Software Engineering
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zisa-security
9 minutes ago
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Thanks for sharing both links. Seeing Amdahl’s original framing alongside Gustafson’s optimistic reinterpretation really helps clarify where the architectural limits start to dominate once workloads scale.
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_josh_meyer_
1 hour ago
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an optimistic rebuttal to Amdahl's law: https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/gustafsons-law/
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zisa-security
1 hour ago
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Nice write-up. I’ve always felt that Amdahl’s Law gets oversimplified in software discussions. The real bottlenecks tend to be architectural rather than purely parallelizable tasks.
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_josh_meyer_
2 hours ago
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