Essential Terms

If your program accesses a memory location once (for example, a loop counter variable), it is highly likely to access the exact same location again in the very near future.

The total volume of work, tasks, or instructions a system can successfully complete within a fixed window of time (for example, 1,000 transactions per second).

A logical operating system technique that allows multiple users or processes to share a single CPU concurrently by rapidly switching between them via tiny time slices.

The standard mathematical convention used by modern digital systems to represent both positive and negative integers in binary.