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Throughput vs Latency

Explore the concepts of throughput and latency within Ruby concurrency to understand how multithreading affects program execution. Learn how throughput measures work done per time unit while latency measures total task completion time. This lesson helps you grasp their inverse relationship and apply this knowledge in optimizing concurrent Ruby programs.

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Throughput vs Latency

Throughput

Throughput is defined as the rate of doing work or how much work gets done per unit of time. If you are an Instagram user, you could define throughput as the number of images downloaded by your phone ...