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locality [lō′kal·əd·ē]
(physics)
The condition that two events at spatially separated locations are entirely independent of each other, provided that the time interval between the events is less than that required for a light signal to travel from one location to the other.
1.locality - 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.locality - 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.


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Fortunately, there are not too many architect tourists in that neck of the woods and I suspect that the edifice still stands there, more or less intact.
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Livingstone is also a denier of the state of anti-Semitism in his own neck of the woods.
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In some places in the world, including certain farms in our own neck of the woods, farmers still listen to the subtle and magical voices of the land teaching them how to encourage their vegetables, fruits, and herbs to grow with abundance.
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