speedup Definition
speed·up (-up′)
noun
an increase in speed; esp., an increase in the rate of output, as required by an employer without any increase in pay
speedup Usage Examples
Converse of object
- give: This should give a decent speedup aslong as I can get it working better.
- achieve: Has anyone else achieved good parallel speedup on beowulf systems?
Adjective modifier
- significant: This results in a significant speedup in rendering at the cost of memory.
- pal: I had no idea the PAL speedup meant nearly a semitone increse.
- noticeable: This results in a noticeable speedup, but can be disabled by this option.
- parallel: Has anyone else achieved good parallel speedup on beowulf systems?
Modifies a noun
- ratio: The most important conclusion to be drawn from Figure 2 is that the speedup ratio is a sensitive function of the hit ratio.
- factor: In this way we obtain a speedup factor of 6 between vector and scalar mode.
Noun used with modifier
%: In some cases this has been shown to result in an almost 50 % speedup in latency times for HTML documents with many images.
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