CCNC/CCNC Module 1/Hardware/Computer Performance

Computer performance is characterized by the amount of useful work accomplished by a computer system compared to the time and resources used.

Depending on the context, good computer performance may involve one or more of the following:


 * Short response time for a given piece of work
 * High throughput (rate of processing work)
 * Low utilization of computing resource(s)
 * High availability of the computing system or application
 * Fast (or highly compact) data compression and decompression
 * High bandwidth / short data transmission time

What can effect computer performance?

 * Number of programs that automatically run during startup
 * Memory capacity
 * Disk space
 * Clock rate