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Amdahl's Law in Software Engineering (lawsofsoftwareengineering.com)
3 points by _josh_meyer_ 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Neil Gunther extends Amdahl's law to the Universal Scalability Law in https://www.perfdynamics.com/Manifesto/USLscalability.pdf (pdf). He uses it to help model a system's scalibility.


Thanks for sharing both links. Seeing Amdahl’s original framing alongside Gustafson’s optimistic reinterpretation really helps clarify where the architectural limits start to dominate once workloads scale.


Nice write-up. I’ve always felt that Amdahl’s Law gets oversimplified in software discussions. The real bottlenecks tend to be architectural rather than purely parallelizable tasks.


an optimistic rebuttal to Amdahl's law: https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/gustafsons-law/





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