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Those micro-sequential portions are right now lumped into one huge 'can't fix', to be able to exploit parallism at that level would make huge speedups possible.

After all, Amdahl's law is 'bad' when you're looking at a 20% segment that you can't improve, but as you get closer to 100% the pay-offs of even small optimizations becomes larger and larger.




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