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Throughput is the total amount of work done in a given time. (In Physics we call this power) But in CS this refers more generally to the amount of anything we are measuring in a given amount of time. To differentiate this from ResponseTime or ExecutionTime, throughput generally is a measurement for many tasks.

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ThroughPut (last edited 2004-01-25 16:52:49 by yakko)