This might be irrelevant but why are we assuming the max speed up from P processors is P? Is it possible in some cases that the speedup gained from P processors can be larger than P?
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@MangoSister I don't believe so, in an ideal scenario the maximum speedup you can get from P processor is indeed P. If you're running 4 execution contexts for instance, the max speedup you can get is 4x. I think that was covered somewhere in the first lecture?
This might be irrelevant but why are we assuming the max speed up from P processors is P? Is it possible in some cases that the speedup gained from P processors can be larger than P?
@MangoSister I don't believe so, in an ideal scenario the maximum speedup you can get from P processor is indeed P. If you're running 4 execution contexts for instance, the max speedup you can get is 4x. I think that was covered somewhere in the first lecture?