speedup

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

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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