English Explanatory Dictionary

space-time trade-off

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A case where an algorithm or program trades increased space usage with decreased time, in which space refers to the data storage consumed in performing a given task and time refers to the time consumed in performing a given task.

Word forms

space-time trade-off space-time trade-offs

Synonyms

time-memory trade-off
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