von Neumann bottleneck
von Neumann bottleneck
[fȯn ′nȯi‚män ′bäd·əl‚nek] (computer science)
An inefficiency inherent in the design of any von Neumann machine that arises from the fact that most computer time is spent in moving information between storage and the central processing unit rather than operating on it.
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