Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by rmnoon 3559 days ago
I don't think most new engineers intuitively grasp the ramifications of Amdahl's Law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_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.