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Clarify reasoning behind reciprocal throughput as a unit

Open spencertipping opened this issue 10 months ago • 0 comments

Hi! I love what you're doing with this project. I wanted to offer a broader explanation about why reciprocal units are helpful in performance engineering: since time-complexity is measured in the time domain, you typically want units that are linear in that domain (and then you can easily do expected-value calculations and other things). Let me know if more context would be helpful.

spencertipping avatar Mar 15 '25 16:03 spencertipping