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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:

This gives a new Execution time of

So we have

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-  ⇤ ← Revision 4 as of 2004-01-25 18:27:41 → 
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-{{{
           Performance for entire task using the enhancement when possible
Speedup = -----------------------------------------------------------------
              Performance for entire taks without using the enhancement
}}}
+$$$Speedup = \frac{Performance~using~enhancement~when~possible}{Performance~without~enhancement}$$$
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-{{{
                  Old Execution Time
SpeedupOverall = --------------------
                  New Execution Time
+$$$Speedup Overall = \frac{Old~Execution~Time}{New~Execution~Time}$$$
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-                                                                    FractionEnhanced
New Execution Time = Old Execution Time ( (1 - FractionEnhanced) + ------------------ )
                                                                    SpeedupEnhanced
+This gives a new Execution time of 

$$$New~Exec~Time = Old~Exec~Time( 1 - Fraction Enhanced + \frac{Fraction Enhanced}{Speedup Enhanced})$$$
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SpeedupOverall = --------------------------------------------
                                           FractionEnhanced
                 (1 - FractionEnhanced) + ------------------ )
                                           SpeedupEnhanced
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-}}}