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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 6 as of 2004-02-17 23:44:44 → 
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           Performance for entire task using the enhancement when possible
Speedup = -----------------------------------------------------------------
              Performance for entire taks without using the enhancement
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-{{{
                  Old Execution Time
SpeedupOverall = --------------------
                  New Execution Time
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-                                                                    FractionEnhanced
New Execution Time = Old Execution Time ( (1 - FractionEnhanced) + ------------------ )
                                                                    SpeedupEnhanced
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                       Execution Time affected by Improvement
New Execution Time =   --------------------------------------  + Execution Time unaffected
                            Amount of Improvement (x times)
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SpeedupOverall = --------------------------------------------
                                           FractionEnhanced
                 (1 - FractionEnhanced) + ------------------ )
                                           SpeedupEnhanced
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