In Throughput and Response Time I described the essence of what we mean by software performance, but there are some additional meanings that are important to consider in many cases. So here is a bigger list of what we mean when we talk about performance: Response Time Throughput Scalability Stability Resource Utilization, eg memory footprint [...]
Throughput and response time
April 16, 2008 By 2 Comments
What does ‘performance’ mean? Software performance is mostly about how fast the software goes and how much work it can handle. To discuss performance we need more accurate terms than ‘speed’. The two most important concepts are: Response time – how quickly the system responds to request Throughput – how much work can it do [...]
