latency
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The state or quality of being latent.
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A 2003 measurement study of Internet routes found that, between pairs of neighboring ISPs, more than 30% of paths have inflated latency due to hot-potato routing, with 5% of paths being delayed by at least 12 ms.
Additionally, as of revision 2.1, all initiators capable of bursting more than two data phases must implement a programmable latency timer.
Adding a clocked register after the circuit that converts the count value to Gray code may introduce a clock cycle of latency, so counting directly in Gray code may be advantageous.
Accordingly, interrupt latency is increased by however long that interrupt is blocked.
An example can be software that maintains and updates the flight plans for commercial airliners : the flight plans must be kept reasonably current, but they can operate with the latency of a few seconds.
AMD kept the 64-bit L2 cache data bus from the older Athlons, as a result, and allowed it to have a relatively high latency.