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{{short description|Process for increasing the performance between two systems solving the same problem}}
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In [[computer architecture]], '''speedup''' is a number that measures the relative performance of two systems processing the same problem. More technically, it is the improvement in speed of execution of a task executed on two similar architectures with different resources. The notion of speedup was established by [[Amdahl's law]], which was particularly focused on [[Parallel computing|parallel processing]]. However, speedup can be used more generally to show the effect on performance after any resource enhancement.