How to use in-sentence of “latency”:
– This allows for high speed transfers with a low latency and avoids that the data is copied around unnecessarily.
– Since reading and writing from memory requires some latency, we can define the thread switching latency as the amount of time needed to complete this operation.
– The choice of the number of execution units, their latency and throughput are important microarchitectural design tasks.
– As of 2008, a cache “miss” costs several hundreds of CPU cycles in a main memory access; with much longer latency compared when the processor finds that the memory location is in the cache.
– The fourth stage is the latency stage which begins at the age of six and continues until the age of eleven.
– However, the current technology actually slows down HD access in certain applications, like games and sequential reads and writes, because of the added latency induced by NCQ logic.
– However, this does not happen in computer hardware because of memory latency and other aspects of the architecture.
– For more features like MIDI ports for connection of musical instruments and low latency requirements sound cards as expansion cards can be used.

