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speedup

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for speedup.

Editorial note

GitLab is something people use heavily every day so I assume most run it with Javascript to get the speedup.

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Quick take

An amount or rate of decrease in time taken to do a certain amount of work.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of speedup gathered in one view.

noun

An amount or rate of decrease in time taken to do a certain amount of work.

noun

(labour, politics) An employer's demand for more output without more pay.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for speedup.

noun

An amount or rate of decrease in time taken to do a certain amount of work.

noun

(labour, politics) An employer's demand for more output without more pay.

Example sentences

1

GitLab is something people use heavily every day so I assume most run it with Javascript to get the speedup.

2

All of the speedup suggestions outlined in your article can also be handled easily - easier than Rails or not, I don't know - in other languages and frameworks as well.

3

I don't know if it's possible to fit significant amounts of rendering logic or js logic into 32K, but if it is, then dedicating a core to each of those functions could give a significant speedup.

4

This matches results I got in the 90s on a 486DX2 - fixed point math was faster than Bresenham's even when both were implemented in ASM (and both gained significant speedup comparing to their C/Pascal implementation I used as a prototype for ASM code).

5

When I used to do realtime image processing (AR), I could get an order of magnitude speedup by just getting my logic to fit into 32K; image processing code can literally go from 3fps to 30fps just by tightening code to the point where it can fit in L1 cache.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use speedup in a sentence?

GitLab is something people use heavily every day so I assume most run it with Javascript to get the speedup.

What does speedup mean?

An amount or rate of decrease in time taken to do a certain amount of work.

What part of speech is speedup?

speedup is commonly used as noun.