In a single-task setting (the situation described in the intro) throughput and latency are just the inverse of one another (in the mathematical sense of “inverse”: throughput = nb task per seconds = 1/time taken to process the task = 1/latency).
They only diverge when you consider multiple tasks.
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In a single-task setting (the situation described in the intro) throughput and latency are just the inverse of one another (in the mathematical sense of “inverse”: throughput = nb task per seconds = 1/time taken to process the task = 1/latency).
They only diverge when you consider multiple tasks.