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A comment on AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast. Parent comment

Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by Sopel on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:11PM (#50444805)
it's not year 2006 anymore
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Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by dmitrygr on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:59PM (#50446254)
I’m sorry, I wasn’t aware that Amdahl’s law has been cancelled. I will brush up on my computing theory.
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Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:45AM (#50450381)
Workloads with legitimate serialization dependencies rather than just bad code are pretty rare. Of course, there is still a lot of bad code out there, but it's not Amdahl's law stopping them from doing better.
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