This "work" looks dumb, since we've just rewrote an article using some simpler words. But when the article is called "Efficiency vs. Speedup in Parallel Systems" and when the authors are called Derek Eager, John Zahorjan and Edward Lazowska, simply understanding the paper was a great achievement for the undergraduates we were :)

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