I don't think most new engineers intuitively grasp the ramifications of Amdahl's Law:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law</a><p>It really doesn't matter if you can make an individual task 1000x faster if your program only spends 1% of its time doing that task.