The more academic usage refers to the design of a computer's underlying languauge - it'sits "instruction set.". An Architecture that is set out thiswayThis will include information such as whether the computer's processor can compute the product of two numbers without resorting to external softwarememory. It will also include a nominatednominal precision for the computer's computations.
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Throughput is the absolute processing power of the computer system. In the most computer systems, throughput is limited to the speed of the slowest piece of hardware thatin is being utiliseduse at a given time. TheseThis mayslowest includepiece might be input and output (I/O), the CPU, the memory chips themselves, or the connection (or "bus") between the memory, the CPU and the I/O. The gating factorlimit most acceptable to users is the speed of the input, because the computer then seems infinitely fast. General-purpose computers like PCs usually maximize throughput to attempt to increase user satisfaction.
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SeeAlso for more information undersee [[CPU design]].
