609: You're the Oreo Cookie

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Sometimes running a particular compression algorithm has parts of it that are parallelizable and parts of it that are not. And you're never going to make it run faster than the parts that are not. They are the long pole. They are the thing that you can't shrink. No matter how many more threads you throw at it, there are certain portions of it that you can't work on at the same time.