memory hierarchy

collocation in English

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memory
noun
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/ˈmem.ər.i/us
/ˈmem.ər.i/
the ability to remember information, experiences, ...
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hierarchy
noun[C]
uk
/ˈhaɪə.rɑː.ki/us
/ˈhaɪ.rɑːr.ki/
a system in which people or things are arranged according to ...
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(Definition ofmemoryandhierarchyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The reason for this is that recursion leads to automatic variable blocking that dynamically adjusts to an arbitrary number of levels ofmemoryhierarchy.
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Stream processing exploits these characteristics using data-parallel processing fed by a distributedmemoryhierarchymanaged by the compiler.
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The lower levels of thememoryhierarchytend to be slower, but larger.
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The state of thememoryhierarchyis checkpointed by disabling stores.
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Memoryhierarchywas also recognized as something to exploit.
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Processor registers are normally at the top of thememoryhierarchy, and provide the fastest way to access data.
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In recent years, research on the contention is more focused on the resources in thememoryhierarchy, e.g., last-level caches, front-side bus, memory socket connection.
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This automatically takes advantage of two or more levels ofmemoryhierarchy, if available.
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Binary search can interact poorly with thememoryhierarchy(i.e. caching), because of its random-access nature.
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Amemoryhierarchyin computer storage distinguishes each level in the hierarchy by response time.
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The many trade-offs in designing for high performance will include the structure of thememoryhierarchy, i.e. the size and technology of each component.
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Then thememoryhierarchywill be assessed during code refactoring.
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The system interface andmemoryhierarchywas also significantly reworked.
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Architectures are changing, with greater internal concurrency (multi-core), better fine-grain concurrency control (threading, affinity), and more levels ofmemoryhierarchy.
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Of interest are scalability with respect to data size, parallelism, higher dimensionality, disk access and memory hierarchies.
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This is a generalmemoryhierarchystructuring.
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