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"Doing things X times faster" at some point hits Amdahl law. If just context switching takes 5 minutes, speeding up a 1 hour task by 10x provides 5x improvement.

Furthermore, if looking at the results takes 10 minutes, that same 1 hour task only sees a 3x improvement. And so on.



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