• 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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    linked list of separate chaining implementation may not be cache-conscious due to spatial localitylocality 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Row- and column-major order (category Articles needing additional references from July 2025)
    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    scheduling Hilbert R-tree Locality of reference Locality-sensitive hashing Moore curve Murray polygon Sierpiński curve List of fractals by Hausdorff dimension...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Dynamic arrays benefit from many of the advantages of arrays, including good locality of reference and data cache utilization, compactness (low memory...
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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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    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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    Morton code map multidimensional data to one dimension while preserving locality of the data points (two points close together in multidimensions with high...
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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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  • 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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  • novelty of PGAS is that the portions of the shared memory space may have an affinity for a particular process, thereby exploiting locality of reference in...
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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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