Kayvon mentioned in lecture that Bob Harper made fun of this for a good reason. What exactly is this reason?
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I believe he made fun of it because it's stated as a "scientific law" which implies its a statement that's been proven based on observation and testing. Amdahl's law is a fact that can be derived with math and isn't really a law.
Kayvon mentioned in lecture that Bob Harper made fun of this for a good reason. What exactly is this reason?
I believe he made fun of it because it's stated as a "scientific law" which implies its a statement that's been proven based on observation and testing. Amdahl's law is a fact that can be derived with math and isn't really a law.
Reference: Bob Harper's book - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/plbook/book.pdf - footnote on page 145
@azeng Kayvon mentioned that Amdahl's law is "systems scientists doing a little bit of math and patting themselves on the back."