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firebb

According to Amdahl's law, a program with sequential portion s, can achieve at most 1/s speedup under infinite computing resource. So clearly here, the best possible speedup is only 4X.

rrudolph

And with only six cores, the best possible speedup is 2.67

speedup < 1/(s + (1-s)/p), s = 0.25, p = 6