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How much actually gets done, not how busy it looked doing it.
means The actual rate at which a system produces finished output, measured over time.
from A straightforward 20th-century compound of 'through' and 'put' — literally what is put through a process. It took root in engineering and computing circles, describing how much data, material, or work actually passes through a pipe, machine, or system in a given time, as opposed to how fast any one piece moves or how busy things look.
- vs speed
- Speed is one item fast; throughput is many items steady
- bottleneck rule
- System throughput equals its slowest stage, always
- busy trap
- Full utilization often lowers throughput via queueing
- measured as
- Units completed per unit time, not effort spent