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Authors:
Linda Null ,julia Lobur
Chapter:
Memory
Exercise:
Review Of Essential Terms And Concepts
Question:5 | ISBN:9780763704445 | Edition: 3

Question

5. Explain the concept of locality of reference and state its importance to memory systems.

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Answer

•principle of locality tells us that once a byte is accessed, it is likely that a nearby data element will be needed soon.

*the locality principle provides the oportunity for a system to use small amount of very fast memory to effectively accelerate the majority of memory acesses. 

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