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Amdahl's law
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English
Etymology
en American computer scientist Gene Amdahl 1922 2015 =.
Proper noun
en comptheory A formula giving the theoretical speedup in latency of the execution of a task at fixed workload that can be expected of a system whose resources are improved.
en David A. Patterson; John L. Hennessy Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface 2011 Elsevier https://books.google.com/books?id=U6lpXmu7OngC&pg=PA52&dq=%22Amdahl's+law%22&hl=&cd=2&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Amdahl's%20law%22&f=false 978-0-08-088613-8 52 We can use Amdahl's law to estimate performance improvements when we know the time consumed for some function and its potential speedup.
Translations
formula for theoretical speedup
Bulgarian: bg закон на Амдал m
Finnish: fi Amdahlin laki
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