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strided: /stri:īd@d/, adj. [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.
These can be a worst-case access pattern for the standard memory-caching
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
your 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. This usage is
borderline techspeak; the related term memory
stride is definitely techspeak.
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