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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Adjacency list (category Articles needing additional references from September 2023)
bytes of contiguous space, where |V| is the number of vertices of the graph. Besides avoiding wasted space, this compactness encourages locality of reference...
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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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exacerbates the previous problem. Locality of reference of user software has weakened. This is mostly attributed to the spread of object-oriented programming...
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AoS and SoA (redirect from Array-of-structures (AoS) and structure-of-arrays (SoA))
of a structure (rather than each individual field) into a parallel array – and this can actually improve locality of reference if different pieces of...
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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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