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Definition of Speedup
1. Noun. The act of accelerating; increasing the speed.
Generic synonyms: Hurrying, Speed, Speeding
Derivative terms: Accelerate, Quicken, Speed Up, Speed Up
Antonyms: Deceleration
Definition of Speedup
1. Noun. An amount or rate of decrease in time taken. ¹
2. Noun. (chiefly computing) The relationship between time taken and number of processors used. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Speedup
1. an acceleration of production without an increase in pay [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speedup
Literary usage of Speedup
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation by Neil D. Jones, Carsten K. Gomard, Peter Sestoft (1993)
"Hansen [111] proves in the setting of logic programming that fold/unfold
transformations at most can give rise to linear speedup. Note that unification is ..."
2. Endocrine Evaluation by Ian Ramsey, Anna Tebb (2006)
"More formally and accurately: s=- I where S is the speedup due to using TV
processors, and F is the fraction of sequential code. ..."
3. 3-D Deterministic Radiation Transport Computer Programs: Features by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (1997)
"As a result the present multitasking algorithm incurs only 25-35% of the
parallelisation penalty previously measured, and improvement in wall clock speedup ..."
4. National Information Systems Security '95 (18th) Proceedings: Making by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"Proof: immediately from the Blum speedup Theorem and the recursive undecidability
... What the speedup Theorem demonstrates is that the general problem of ..."
5. Coastal Construction Manual: Prin. & Practices of Planning, Siting, Design ...by Christopher Jones by Christopher Jones (2001)
"For example, a building sited atop a tall bluff, but away from the bluff edge,
will not be prone to wind speedup initially, but long-term erosion may move ..."
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