Granularity

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  granularity
       n : the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
           [syn: {coarseness}, {graininess}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:



  granularity
       
           The size of the units of {code} under
          consideration in some context.  The term generally refers to
          the level of detail at which code is considered, e.g. "You can
          specify the granularity for this profiling tool".
       
          The most common computing use is in parallelism where "fine
          grain parallelism" means individual tasks are relatively small
          in terms of code size and execution time, "coarse grain" is
          the opposite.  You talk about the "granularity" of the
          parallelism.
       
          The smaller the granularity, the greater the potential for
          parallelism and hence speed-up but the greater the overheads
          of synchronisation and communication.
       
          (1997-05-08)