Talk:Locality of reference

message: See the new section of the article. I made explicit what I found already in the article in an implicit way: namely that locality is only a frequently occurring phenomenon, but the globality is also there in the life of computers. I also restructured the article and removed a few dulicated paragraphs, but in a conservative way: not to vanish any existing information. prohlep (talk) 16:27, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Globality of reference 

message: (cur) (last)  22:38, 6 July 2008 Derek farn (Talk | contribs) (8,515 bytes) (rv: Incorrect and poorly written attempt at a reworked article (please work out proposed major rewrites on the talk page first)) (undo)
COULD YOU NOT IGNORE THE  underconstruction TEMPLATE??!!
COULD YOU FIRST VISIT THE DISCUSSION PAGE, WHAT I KIND OF MAJOR WORK IS GOIN ON DURING THE LAST 4 HOURS??!!
COULD YOU FIRST CREATE YOUR User:Derek farn PAGE, OTHERWISE WE DO NOT KNOW, WHO ARE YOU??!!
DEREK, STOP VANDALIZE MY WORK DONE DURING THE 4 HOURS AND IS STILL IN SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS!!!
For further reference on Derek, see Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-06-06 Programming language: "Derek farn is reverting changes without discussion, including sarcastic edit summaries, and ...", OK, so this is not the first case. prohlep (talk) 20:59, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  URGENT TO DEREK FARN: 

message: The following articles are all largely about the same thing:
"Locality of Reference"
"Loop tiling"
"Loop nest optimization"
You would not guess this from what each says about the others.  The information should probably be consolidated in one place by someone who has permissions.  Also, it would be of extreme benefit to this topic of matrix blocking to have pictures that illustrate what's going on. 98.119.149.245 (talk) 23:19, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: [Please discuss at Talk:Loop nest optimization#Merge needed -- intgr [talk] 07:25, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge needed 

message: does anyone else think these topics are related enough to warrant an link?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order_curve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve
: yes i think those are worth considering, I've throw a description in another article memory access patterns, and i think thats a nicer place to link them too 'memory access patterns -> 2d/spatial (suitable for z-order curve)'. i've added links elsewhere too (texture mapping articles etc)Fmadd (talk) 19:53, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  link to morton & hilbert curves? 

message: I see this article spells out an example for 'loop tiling' which came from an article 'memory locality', but loop tiling has it's own article.
I would argue that the previous merge from 'memory locality' is counter productive. 
What's the need to cram everything into one article, when wikipedia is hypertext accessed in a browser???
 
Why not rely on a link describing something in detail. Also think about the new hover cards feature and how nice it is to have a simple,direct,definitive definition from a linked phrase.  Merges lose this, and it becomes awkward to reword text to define things. "memory locality" is a distinct term, often used, and a subset of / slightly different to 'locality of reference' arguably locality of reference can apply to things other than memory)
I've added an article memory access pattern really just wanting to define a phrase but went through the exercise of 'trying to flesh out an article', but I realise that this might just get merged here.. which again would IMO be counter-productive. 
Think about the flow of concepts from one phrase. 
Perhaps 'memory locality' was a page that could have grown into what I was trying to write... but yet there are still difference. 
I'm covering the concept of 'scatter/gather' memory access patterns r.e. GPGPU and parallelism. The phrases 'locality of reference', 'memory locality' , and 'memory access pattern' all appear in slightly different contexts and have a different emphasis. 
In my added article, I was happy to reference 'loop tiling' as a solution in a list of categories of 'memory access patterns' (sequential, strided, random..)
I also notice this page immediately describes 'several types of locality', whilst memory locality is more specific.
Fmadd (talk) 19:49, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:   Loop tiling and previous merge of Memory Locality