computer science, locality of reference, also known as the principle of locality, is the tendency of a processor to access the same set of memory locations...
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which a locality is a geographic subdivision in rural areas of Australia Locality (astronomy) Locality of reference, in computer science Locality (statistics)...
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Hash table (section Caching and locality of reference)
linked list of separate chaining implementation may not be cache-conscious due to spatial locality—locality of reference—when the nodes of the linked list...
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In computer science, locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a fuzzy hashing technique that hashes similar input items into the same "buckets" with high probability...
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level of locality of reference and drastically affect cache performance, and also have implications for the approach to parallelism and distribution of workload...
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workloads with high memory locality of reference and low lock contention, because a processor may operate on a subset of memory mostly or entirely within...
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exploits spatial locality of reference. In addition, contiguous access makes it possible to use SIMD instructions that operate on vectors of data. In some...
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Cache (computing) (category Articles needing additional references from June 2021)
effective in many areas of computing because typical computer applications access data with a high degree of locality of reference. Such access patterns...
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optimal locality of reference and thus make good use of data caching. Another disadvantage of linked lists is the extra storage needed for references, which...
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refers to the lack of locality of reference (within the storing medium) between related files. Unlike the previous two types of fragmentation, file scattering...
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reference and with allocating the memory for the smaller objects. Internal storage also enhances locality of reference by keeping different parts of the...
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releases of Pentium Pro, Cyrix 6x86, Nx586, and AMD K5. When a computer program accesses the same data repeatedly, this is called locality of reference. Holding...
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programming constructs involving locality of reference. Designing for high performance requires considering the restrictions of the memory hierarchy, i.e. the...
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Diwana, Balochistan (redirect from Diwāna (locality), Balochistan)
Diwana or Diwāna or Diwana Thana is a city in Balochistan province of Pakistan, situated near the border with Sindh. It lies at 26°04′46″N 67°17′16″E...
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Optimizing compiler (redirect from List of compiler optimizations)
increase spatial locality of reference. Exploit the memory hierarchy Accesses to memory are increasingly more expensive for each level of the memory hierarchy...
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The main advantage of quicksort is its much better locality of reference: partitioning is a linear scan with good spatial locality, and the recursive...
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Free lists have the disadvantage, inherited from linked lists, of poor locality of reference and so poor data cache utilization, and they do not automatically...
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part of the original loop's body. The goal is to break down a large loop body into smaller ones to achieve better utilization of locality of reference. This...
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Parallel array (category Articles needing additional references from January 2018)
have significantly worse locality of reference when visiting the records non-sequentially and examining multiple fields of each record, because the various...
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range, but each new loop takes only part of the original loop's body. This can improve locality of reference, both of the data being accessed in the loop and...
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Quadratic probing (category Articles needing additional references from September 2019)
better locality of reference than many other hash table such as chaining; however, for queries, quadratic probing does not have as good locality as linear...
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the elements of a multi-dimensional array are accessed in the order in which they are present in memory, improving locality of reference. For example...
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Scratchpad memory (category Articles needing additional references from October 2013)
in place of a cache for mirroring the state of slower main memory. The same issues of locality of reference apply in relation to efficiency of use; although...
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computer graphics, a way to store texture maps while respecting locality of reference. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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exhibiting almost no locality of reference. A solution to these problems is offered by segmented sieves, where only portions of the range are sieved at...
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end of A. By doing this we free the space required by the reference, which can add up if done many times, and also improve locality of reference, enhancing...
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Data-oriented design (category Articles needing additional references from July 2020)
increases the likelihood of cache misses in the shared bus, otherwise known as Von Neumann bottlenecking. Consequently, locality of reference methods have been...
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Array (data structure) (category Articles needing additional references from September 2008)
than sparsely scattered. This is known as spatial locality, which is a type of locality of reference. Many algorithms that use multidimensional arrays...
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Working set (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from July 2024)
program, and if it cannot acquire enough resources, it simply fails. Locality of reference Resident set size Working set size Denning, Peter J. (2021-02-02)...
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locality of reference and results in higher overall performance, reduced latency and better hardware utilization because of the higher utilization of...
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