1.4 Performance terminology
By performance terminology we simply mean the fundamental vocabulary used by performance experts.
The key terms that we discuss here are:
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| Response time |
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| Load |
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| Throughput |
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| Path length |
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| Bottleneck |
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| Scalability |
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| Capacity |