AmdahlsLaw - Dr. A's Wiki

Back to ComputerTerms

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

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:

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

This gives a new Execution time of

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

So we have

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

Back to ComputerTerms