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$S p e e d u p = \frac{P e r f o r m a n c e u s i n g e n h a n c e m e n t w h e n p o s s i b l e}{P e r f o r m a n c e w i t h o u t e n h a n c e m e n t}$

See SpeedUp

Notice that we are talking about the entire task here and that performance (speedup) is defined in terms of execution time! So we have to define the following:

$S p e e d u p O v e r a l l = \frac{O l d E x e c u t i o n T i m e}{N e w E x e c u t i o n T i m e}$

This gives a new Execution time of

$N e w E x e c T i m e = O l d E x e c T i m e (1 - F r a c t i o n E n h a n c e d + \frac{F r a c t i o n E n h a n c e d}{S p e e d u p E n h a n c e d})$

So we have

$S p e e d u p O v e r a l l = (\frac{1}{1 - F r a c t i o n E n h a n c e d + \frac{F r a c t i o n E n h a n c e d}{S p e e d u p E n h a n c e d}})$

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