Throughput vs Goodput - What's the difference?
throughput | goodput |
(operations) The rate of production; the rate at which something can be processed.
* The factory managed a throughput of 120 units per hour.
* 1927 , Harald Nielsen, "Distillation of Carbonaceous Materials" [http://www.google.com/patents?id=uPpbAAAAEBAJ&dq=throughput&jtp=1], US Patent 1886262, line 70:
(networking) The rate at which data is transferred through a system.
(computing, networking) Application-level throughput, i.e. the number of useful bits per unit of time forwarded by the network from source to destination, excluding protocol overhead such as retransmissions.
As nouns the difference between throughput and goodput
is that throughput is the rate of production; the rate at which something can be processed while goodput is application-level throughput, i.e. the number of useful bits per unit of time forwarded by the network from source to destination, excluding protocol overhead such as retransmissions.throughput
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Alternative forms
* thruputNoun
(en noun)- "if the rate of heating is substantially reduced, not only is the throughput of the apparatus diminished and the cost of the process increased, but the properties of the resultant coke are detrimentally affected."