"Get the lead out!"

• The act of accelerating
• Move it along
• Get the lead out, so to speak
• Go faster
• Step on the gas, e.g

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Anyone who thinks about the speedup of change must sense that it has a lot to do with modern technology. ▪ But Democrats say the speedup would undermine the work of a commission that is developing standards for a new statewide ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of accelerating; increasing the speed [syn: acceleration , quickening ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An amount or rate of decrease in time taken. 2 (context chiefly computing English) The relationship between time taken and number of processors used. 3 (context labor politics English) an employer's demand for more output without more pay

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computer architecture , speedup is a process for increasing the performance between 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 ...