Talk:Memory locality

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Clock cycles to access a disk[edit]

Is "1,000-10,000 clock cycles" really appropriate here for access time to access data stored on disk? You typically have to pay seek time which is at least several milliseconds, which is on the order of many millions of clock cycles on a modern desktop computer. 10000 clock cycles seems like an incredibly small amount of time in comparison.

Merge of Memory hierarchy into Memory locality[edit]

It has similar contents and the article is in a more complete state. —Preceding unsigned comment added by IvanAndreevich (talk • contribs) 00:21, 24 November 2006

I oppose merging Memory hierarchy and Memory locality. They are quite different subjects, even though the usefulness of one depends on the other. They should remain separate articles. (The other article is always just a click away.) -R. S. Shaw 03:38, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please keep the discussion on Talk:Locality of reference. -- intgr 08:33, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your comment indicates some confusion:

The above discussion is about a merge of this page with Memory hierarchy, not with Locality of reference, as the heading says, so that is not an appropriate place for such a discussion.
The {merge} (with Locality of reference) template on the article should have pointed the discussion to Talk:Locality of reference, but didn't. I've fixed that.

-R. S. Shaw 20:22, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]