Refocusing Amdahl's Law

Refocusing Amdahl's Law

At this point, I’m decided to pass most of my articles to Overload. I still have the freedom to talk about the topics that are close to my heart, but I also get all the benefits of publishing in a peer-reviewed journal. I highly appreciate the high-quality feedback coming from the reviewers, and the professionalism of all involved. Respect!

This article is proof that one can achieve high speedups by using task-based concurrency rather than locks. I personally was delighted with the results after working our the formulas.

If you still use mutexes in your codebase, you need to read the article. If you are not using mutexes, the article explains you (at least one facet of) why you are doing the right thing. So, read the article:

Keep truthing!

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Lucian Radu Teodorescu holds a PhD in programming languages, and is a Software Architect at Garmin International. He likes challenges; and understanding the essence of things (if there is one) constitutes the biggest challenge of all.

Cluj-Napoca, Romania lucteo.github.io

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