I/O bound

adjective

Of total system throughput, being limited by the input/output rate, rather than by processing speed of the CPU.

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Meanings

adjectiveI/O bound (not comparable)
  1. not comparablecomputingOf total system throughput, being limited by the input/output rate, rather than by processing speed of the CPU.
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