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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

latency

The time delay before a component in the computer responds to an instruction, e.g. the time between data being requested from a memory device and the time when the data is returned.

Related terms
megahertzmillions of instructions per second (MIPS)componentperipherallatencyinstructionbenchmark
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