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This method benefits from more compact storage and better locality of reference, particularly during a preorder traversal.
Nevertheless, caches have proven themselves in many areas of computing because access patterns in typical computer applications have locality of reference.
* Like quicksort, merge sort on arrays has considerably better data cache performance, often outperforming heapsort on modern desktop computers because merge sort frequently accesses contiguous memory locations ( good locality of reference ); heapsort references are spread throughout the heap.
; Locality: Code and data that are accessed closely together in time should be placed close together in memory to increase spatial locality of reference.
This can improve locality of reference, both of the data being accessed in the loop and the code in the loop's body.
When the loop variables index into an array, such a transformation can improve locality of reference, depending on the array's layout.
; Code-block reordering: Code-block reordering alters the order of the basic blocks in a program in order to reduce conditional branches and improve locality of reference.
Nearly all CPU architectures use a small amount of very fast non-shared memory known as cache to exploit locality of reference in memory accesses.
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 performance on modern machines.
The first reference to the giant sequoia by Europeans is in 1833, in the diary of the explorer J. K. Leonard ; the reference does not mention any locality, but his route would have taken him through the Calaveras Grove.
In computer science, locality of reference, also known as the principle of locality, is the phenomenon of the same value or related storage locations being frequently accessed.
There are two basic types of reference locality.
Systems which exhibit strong locality of reference are good candidates for performance optimization through the use of techniques like the cache and instruction prefetch technology for memory or the advanced branch predictor at the pipelining of processors.
This means that if a lot of processing is done, the single item will be accessed more than once, thus leading to temporal locality of reference.
Furthermore, moving to the next item implies that the next item will be read, hence spatial locality of reference, since memory locations are typically read in batches.
Data locality is a typical memory reference feature of regular programs ( though many irregular memory access patterns exist ).
The term memory hierarchy is used in computer architecture when discussing performance issues in computer architectural design, algorithm predictions, and the lower level programming constructs such as involving locality of reference.
Most modern CPUs are so fast that for most program workloads, the bottleneck is the locality of reference of memory accesses and the efficiency of the caching and memory transfer between different levels of the hierarchy.
The first mentioned Amphictyony centered on the cult of Demeter at the city Anthela in the locality of Thermopylae. The delegates to the Amphictiony were entitled Pylagorai ( gate-assemblers ), perhaps a reference to the local gates of Hades, since Demeter was a chthonic goddess in many of her older local cults.
To reduce Cache miss exceptions by providing good spatial locality of reference, specify ' high frequency '/ volatile working storage data within defined structure ( s ) so that they are also allocated from contiguous sections of memory ( rather than possibly scattered over many pages ).

locality and also
While there is an official locality named Akibahara, which is also 秋葉原 in kanji, nearby ( as part of Taitō-ku ), the area known to most people as Akihabara ( including the railway station of the same name ) also include Soto-Kanda, a part of Chiyoda-ku.
In England, a community college is a school which not only provides education for the school age population ( 11-18 ) of the locality, but also additional services and education to adults and other members of the community.
Mainstream physics prefers to keep locality, while striving also to maintain a notion of realism that nevertheless rejects counter-factual definiteness.
There are 15 urban areas ( also called a Tätort or locality ) in Helsingborg Municipality.
There are eight urban areas ( also called a Tätort or locality ) in Hultsfred Municipality.
Malmö is also a bimunicipal locality, as part of it is formally situated in Burlöv Municipality.
The type specimen was discovered at the Flaming Cliffs site ( also known as Bayn Dzak and Shabarakh Usu ), while the " Fighting Dinosaurs " were found at the Tugrig locality ( also known as Tugrugeen Shireh ).
However, slate occurs in a variety of colors even from a single locality ; for example, slate from North Wales can be found in many shades of grey, from pale to dark, and may also be purple, green or cyan.
In the locality of Fiume Santo is also found a fossil site where an Oreopithecus bambolii, a prehistoric anthropomorphic primate, was discovered, dated at 8, 5 millions years.
A single programming language would have to be able to not only partition the workload, but also comprehend the memory locality, which is severe in a mesh-based architecture.
The distinction between a town and a city similarly depends on the approach adopted: a city may strictly be an administrative entity which has been granted that designation by law, but in informal usage, the term is also used to denote an urban locality of a particular size or importance: whereas a medieval city may have possessed as few as 10, 000 inhabitants, today some consider an urban place of fewer than 100, 000 as a town, even though there are many officially designated cities that are very, very much smaller than that.
* Fowler, British Columbia, a locality on the Stikine River, British Columbia ( also Fowler Creek )
In 2000 Regan Tamanui started the first Stuckist group outside Britain in Melbourne, Australia, and it was decided that other artists should be free to start their own groups also, named after their locality.
This means that spatial locality is again important: if one element is referenced, a few neighboring elements will also be brought into cache.
Temporal locality can also be improved in the above example by using a technique called blocking.
There are 15 urban areas ( also called a Tätort or locality ) in Kalmar Municipality.
The locality paradox also attributed to the arguments of panorama critics.
Walter Burkert points out, " When in the Iliad Zeus calls the gods into assembly on Mount Olympus, it is not only the well-known Olympians who come along, but also all the nymphs and all the rivers ; Okeanos alone remains at his station ", Greek hearers recognized this impossibility as the poet's hyperbole, which proclaimed the universal power of Zeus over the ancient natural world: " the worship of these deities ," Burkert confirms, " is limited only by the fact that they are inseparably identified with a specific locality.

locality and known
Glan Rhondda ( Banks of the Rhondda ), as it was known when it was composed, was first performed in the vestry of the original Capel Tabor, Maesteg, ( which later became a working men's club ), in either January or February 1856, by Elizabeth John from Pontypridd, and it soon became popular in the locality.
Other dinosaurs known from the same locality as V. mongoliensis include the troodontid Saurornithoides mongoliensis, the oviraptorid Oviraptor philoceratops, and the dromaeosaurid Mahakala omnogovae.
Besides using professional actors, German, American and otherwise, Herzog is known for using people from the locality in which he is shooting.
The global conservation status of velvet worm species is difficult to estimate ; many species are only known to exist at their type locality ( the location at which they were first observed and described ).
However, adjacent to the new official locality, a Moldavian colony already existed, which by the end of 18th century was an independent settlement known under the name of Moldavanka.
The locality was originally known as Franklin Meadows.
Before settlement, the locality now known as Heyworth was covered by a heavy growth of timber and underbrush which was inhabited by the Kickapoo Native Americans, and was supported a great number of deer, wild turkeys, and packs of large gray wolves.
The contiguous urban area, or locality of Rättvik lies on Lake Siljan, and had 4, 588 inhabitants in 2005 ;< ref name = scb > it is widely known for its old tradition of folkmusic and the beauty of the surroundings close to Lake Siljan ; it is included on many tours of Sweden as an example of a traditional Swedish and Scandinavian way of living.
The locality became known as Green's Mill, after the grist mill Colonel Green built at the mouth of the creek.
Anglin was the original owner of the land upon which Philippi stands, hence the earliest known name for the locality — Anglin's Ford.
It was then a farm belonging to William F. Wilson, and the locality had long been known as Booth's Ferry.
In its locality the rule of law was different from the rest of London, which special jurisdiction was known as the Liberties of the Savoy.
It describes the appearance, habits and locality of all the known insects except the beetles, and is a marvel of patient and accurate observation.
The burial ground, which became known as " Tindal's Burial Ground " attracted mainly dissenters from the Established Church who were of a Protestant persuasion, partly owing to their much larger numbers in the locality than other faiths who did not conform to the Church of England's ways, such as Catholics or Jewish citizens.
In his youth, Chaitanya Mahäprabhu was primarily known as an erudite scholar, whose learning and skills in argumentation in his locality were second to none.
From the start the count was not in charge of a roving warband, but settled in a locality, known as a countship ; his main rival for power was the bishop, whose diocese was often coterminous with the countship.
The upper reaches of Stonehouse Creek, now Victoria Park, were formerly known as the Deadlake and it is frequently marked as such on early maps of the locality.

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