speedup
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the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
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Amdahl's law is often used in parallel computing to predict the theoretical speedup when using multiple processors.
By using Amdahl's law, the overall speedup is : Notice how the 20 times and 5 times speedup on the 2nd and 3rd parts respectively don't have much effect on the overall speedup when the 4th part (48% of the execution time) is sped up only 1.6 times.
By summer the Americans were sending 10,000 fresh men a day to the Western Front, a speedup made possible by leaving their equipment behind and using British and French munitions.
However even given infinitely fast dependency checking logic on an otherwise conventional superscalar CPU, if the instruction stream itself has many dependencies, this would also limit the possible speedup.
Metrics that are inversely proportional to time (speedup, IPC ) should be averaged using the harmonic mean.
Evolution according to Amdahl's law of the theoretical speedup in latency of the execution of a program in function of the number of processors executing it, for different values of p. The speedup is limited by the serial part of the program.