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I/O bound

I/O bound adjective: of total system throughput, being limited by the input/output rate, rather than by processing speed of the CPU.

Adjective

I/O bound (not comparable)

  1. Of total system throughput, being limited by the input/output rate, rather than by processing speed of the CPU.

Questions about I/O bound

What does I/O bound mean?
I/O bound means of total system throughput, being limited by the input/output rate, rather than by processing speed of the CPU.
What part of speech is I/O bound?
I/O bound is an adjective.

Words near I/O bound in the dictionary

  1. i.q.
  2. i.v.
  3. I.W.
  4. I/DD
  5. i/o
  6. I/O bound
  7. I/Os
  8. i18n
  9. I2
  10. I3
  11. i386

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