Latency vs. Throughput

• The latency of a load of laundry is 2 hours

  • Does not change with pipelining

• The throughput of the laundry system is

  • 1 loads/2 hours = .5 LPH without pipelining
  • 1 load/.5 hours = 2 LPH with pipelining

• The speedup is 4, the same as the number of stages (when stages are balanced)

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