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memory bandwidth

How many bytes per second can flow between memory and the processor; streaming code is limited by this, not by how long one access takes.

Memory bandwidth is the sustained data transfer rate between a level of the hierarchy and the cores (GB/s); a streaming loop is bandwidth-bound when its bytes per second demanded exceed it, independent of latency.

See also

latency staircase
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