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Comment by serf

15 hours ago

>Performance scales with the speed and number of processor threads.

music to my ears. I wish more software had similar rules.

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serf

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tgv  9 hours ago

Certain types of (numerical) problems are very parallel in nature. LLMs, for example. But obviously not every problem is. And sometimes a parallel solution isn't the most efficient.

  • Y_Y  6 hours ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel

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