stride

n 1: a step in walking or running [syn: {pace}, {tread}]

2: the distance covered by a step; "he stepped off ten paces

from the old tree and began to dig" [syn: {footstep}, {pace},

{step}]

3: significant progress (especially in the phrase "make

strides" or "make rapid strides")

v 1: walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a

stride; "He strode confidently across the hall" [syn: {march}]

2: cover or traverse by striding; "She strode several miles

towards the woods"

strided

/str:'d▫d/ (scientific computing) Said of a sequence of memory

reads and writes to addresses, each of which is separated from

the last by a constant interval called "the stride length", or

just "the stride". These can be a worst-case access pattern

for {cache} schemes when the stride length is a multiple of

the {cache line} size.

Strided references are often generated by loops through an

{array}, and (if the data is large enough that access-time is

significant) it can be worthwhile to tune for better locality

by inverting double loops or by partially unrolling the outer

loop of a loop nest.

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(1994-12-21)