What is Parallel efficiency?

Parallel speedup divided by the number of processors, indicating how effectively the cores are used.

Field: Performance Analysis

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  1. Running in parallel on 8 cores is 6× faster than on 1 core. What is the parallel efficiency?

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Speedup Benchmark CPU time Cycles per instruction (CPI) Flame graph Geometric mean Gustafson's law Harmonic mean Little's law Microbenchmark

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