Equation 12 · Part 1 · Codex vs Claude Code: A Systems Comparison, Not a Benchmark Beauty Contest
Symbol G
What this part means
G is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
Its job in the formula
G is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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The passage around this formula
The important metric is not maximum concurrent workers. It is useful independent work per coordination token. For n workers, . G(n) can decline when workers rediscover shared context, return verbose summaries, edit overlapping files, or rely on inconsistent assumptions. Start parallelism with read-heavy mapping, test analysis, security review, and documentation verification. Isolate writers in worktrees and keep a single owner for global invariants.
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A function assigns an output to each allowed input. The expression f(x) means “apply f to x”.
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