Amdahl's law

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English

Etymology

Named after American computer scientist Gene Amdahl (1922–2015).

Proper noun

Amdahl's law

  1. (computing theory) 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.
    • 2011, David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 52:
      We can use Amdahl's law to estimate performance improvements when we know the time consumed for some function and its potential speedup.

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