Short for Amdahl's Law, a principle in computer science describing how the speed of a program is limited by its slowest sequential part.
Named after Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist who formulated the law in 1967 describing parallel computing performance limits.
Amdahl's Law is a humbling truth in computing—no matter how many processors you throw at a problem, if 10% of the code can't be parallelized, you hit a ceiling; it's like trying to make a movie faster when the editor's only one person.
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