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The actual rate at which data is successfully delivered across a channel or processed by a system, measured in bits per second or transactions per second, as opposed to bandwidth, the theoretical maximum capacity of the link. Mathis, Semke, Mahdavi, and Ott's 1997 analysis derived the throughput of a TCP connection under congestion avoidance, showing it falls with the round-trip time and with the square root of the packet-loss rate. The referent is an achieved delivery rate under real conditions, not a raw capacity, a count of units off a production line, or a person's rate of taking in information.[1]
The rate at which a production system generates output, counted as finished units per unit of time. In Eliyahu Goldratt's Theory of Constraints the meaning is sharper: throughput is the rate at which the organisation generates money through sales, so goods that pile up as unsold inventory do not count, and the whole system's throughput is governed by its single binding constraint. In queueing and factory-physics accounts it is one term of Little's law, which ties the average throughput of a stable system to its work-in-process and its cycle time. The referent is a rate of production or of money generation across a plant or firm, not bits crossing a wire or a mind's information rate.[2][3]
The rate at which a person can take in information and act on it, treated as the throughput of the human viewed as a limited-capacity information channel and expressed in bits per second. Hick's 1952 study showed that choice reaction time rises with the logarithm of the number of alternatives, so the rate of gain of information stays roughly constant, a human analogue of channel capacity. Miller's 1956 review set a related limit on how many items a person can hold and judge at once. The referent is the throughput of a mind processing stimuli, not data delivered over a network or units leaving a production line.[4][5]
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