Open Debate About Knees.
The author discusses the concept of a knee in terms of computer program performance, defined as a section of a curve where response times and throughput are optimally balanced. An argument by computer scientist Neil Gunther that such knees are not based on mathematical discontinuities, but merely re...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 10; pp. 42 - 43 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Oct2010
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| Sumario: | The author discusses the concept of a knee in terms of computer program performance, defined as a section of a curve where response times and throughput are optimally balanced. An argument by computer scientist Neil Gunther that such knees are not based on mathematical discontinuities, but merely reflect human preferences, is critiqued. |
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