ConceptAmdahl's Law
Amdahl's Law
A classic law in computer architecture stating that the overall speedup of a system is limited by the proportion of the system that cannot be accelerated.
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Oct 13
According to Amdahl's Law, if writing code accounts for 30% of total software delivery time and review and verification account for 70%, then even if code-writing speed increased to infinitely fast, the upper limit on overall delivery speed improvement would be only about 43%.
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