February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
16h 50m
English
Content preview from Advanced Python Programming
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A quick example
Let's assume that we have a computer program, and the following applies to it:
- 40% of it is subject to parallelism, so B = 1 - 40% = 0.6
- Its parallelizable parts will be processed by four processors, so j = 4
Amdahl's Law states that the overall speedup of applying the improvement will be as follows: