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Amdahl's law really plays out when doing things. On the previous assignment, we spent a long time trying to optimize the parallel code and were completely clueless when we still saw the same, terrible timing. Took me long enough to start tracing through the code to find the sequential parts. A lack of speedup over multiple processors should be a huge hint folks!