Vocabulary · Volume 1 and Volume 2

Data-bound

In this book, work whose limiting behavior depends materially on data access, movement, layout, state, or coordination. It is broader than disk-bound, and the limiting resource can change as the data or its use changes.

The definition appears in the Volume 1 glossary and Volume 2 glossary. This page collects where the book uses the term and where the blog takes it up.