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Re:Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more ... by difftest on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @08:56AM (#12304262)
3: Amdahl's law says that partially parallelizable applications don't see much improvement.

50% parallelizable program will run 33% faster on 2 cores (not 100%) 60% faster on 4 (not 300%).

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