Locality
[loh-kal-i-tee] /loʊˈkæl ɪ ti/
noun, plural localities.
1.
a place, spot, or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there:
They moved to another locality.
2.
the state or fact of being or having a location:
the locality that every material object must have.
/ləʊˈkælɪtɪ/
noun (pl) -ties
1.
a neighbourhood or area
2.
the site or scene of an event
3.
the fact or condition of having a location or position in space
n.
1620s, “fact of having a place,” from French localité, from Late Latin localitatem (nominative localitas) “locality,” from localis “belonging to a place” (see local). Meaning “a place or district” is from 1830.
1. In sequential architectures programs tend to access data that has been accessed recently (temporal locality) or that is at an address near recently referenced data (spatial locality). This is the basis for the speed-up obtained with a cache memory.
2. In a multi-processor architecture with distributed memory it takes longer to access the memory attached to a different processor. This overhead increases with the number of communicating processors. Thus to efficiently employ many processors on a problem we must increase the proportion of references which are to local memory.
(1995-02-28)
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