Latency lags bandwith
DA Patterson - Communications of the ACM, 2004 - dl.acm.org
Communications of the ACM, 2004•dl.acm.org
As I review performance trends, I am struck by a consistent theme across many
technologies: bandwidth improves much more quickly than latency. Here, I list a half-dozen
performance milestones to document this observation, many reasons why it happens, a few
ways to cope with it, a rule of thumb to quantify it, plus an example of how to design systems
differently based on this observation.
technologies: bandwidth improves much more quickly than latency. Here, I list a half-dozen
performance milestones to document this observation, many reasons why it happens, a few
ways to cope with it, a rule of thumb to quantify it, plus an example of how to design systems
differently based on this observation.
As I review performance trends, I am struck by a consistent theme across many technologies: bandwidth improves much more quickly than latency. Here, I list a half-dozen performance milestones to document this observation, many reasons why it happens, a few ways to cope with it, a rule of thumb to quantify it, plus an example of how to design systems differently based on this observation.
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