This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
Make the common case fast
Making the common case fast will tend to enhance performance better than optimizing the rare case. |
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Response Time
Also called execution time. The total time required for the computer to complete a task, including disk accesses, memory accesses, I/O activities, operating system overhead, CPU execution time, and so on. |
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Throughput
Also called bandwidth. Another measure of performance, it is the number of tasks completed per unit of time. |
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