# Amdahl’s Law The theoretical speedup you can get from increasing parallelization of a process. The more you parallelize a program, the more the program is dominated by the parts that are managing the parallelization [Amdahl’s law - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law) [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Amdahl’s+Law) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Amdahl’s+Law)