Qualcomm Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers






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It states that the performance improvement to be gained by using some faster mode of execution is limited by the fraction of time the faster mode can be used.

Overall Speedup = (1 / (1-f) + (f/s))

where f - Fraction of benchmark that is improved
s - Speed of the enhanced portion

- Anonymous February 17, 2011 | Flag Reply
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

- dhaval0129 September 13, 2010 | Flag Reply
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1/((1-p)+p/n)

- GoodLuck January 31, 2011 | Flag Reply


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