Performance Considerations

FME has, at its heart, a very powerful and speedy translation and transformation engine:

However, as fast as FME is, a big factor in performance is in the design and optimization of the workspace. To create a well-designed workspace you need to know what sort of design flaws can impair performance, you need to be able to measure how well your workspace is performing, and you need to know what techniques you can apply to avoid performance bottlenecks.

But in fact, perhaps the first thing to discuss is what we even mean by "performance"!