“The latency, which was commonly ignored, is a major component of many/most data transfer systems.”
Not commonly ignored. Much work has been done in this area.
Not commonly ignored. Much work has been done in this area.
My story was from the 1980's. My statement, as seen above, is that latency was commonly ignored. And it WAS commonly ignored. At that time, it was typical to rate disks by throughput and channels by bandwidth, but seldom WAS latency mentioned for either.
Being an electrical engineer with a Master's degree in computer science, my secondary job was developing benchmarks and models to make our mainframe batch and transaction processing applications run faster. (My primary job was the architecture of our database integrity control mechanisms including the reliability and recovery our our databases and batch work flows after crashes.) Occasionally, I would take over from our benchmark services group and work on customer benchmarks directly.
I worked with and provided direction to our system performance groups. I provided tools for them that I developed myself.
In short, I am a computer professional and I understand bandwidth, latency, and how they interrelate in both networking and disk access situations.
So quit your carping!