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Subject: Re: [9fans] Barrelfish
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Richard Miller wrote:
>> It's easy to write good code that will take advantage of arbitrarily many
>> processors to run faster / smoother, if you have a proper language for the
>> task.
>
> ... and if you can find a way around Amdahl's law (qv).
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http://www.cis.temple.edu/~shi/docs/amdahl/amdahl.html