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 computer system or application
 * Fast (or highly compact) data compression and decompression
 * High bandwidth/short data transmission time.