A pianist may use stride

Stride

Stride involves the alternation of chords and single notes (or octaves) in the left hand and the rapid, pianistic figures typical of ragtime in the right

Focus your attention on the inner loops, where the bulk of the computationsand memory accesses occur.. Try to maximize the spatial locality in your programs by reading data objectssequentially, with stride 1, in the order they are stored in memory.. Try to maximize the temporal locality in your programs by using a data objectas often as possible once it has been read from memory.

Visiting every kth element of a contiguous vector is called a stride-kreference pattern. Stride-1 reference patterns are a common and important sourceof spatial locality in programs. In general, as the stride increases, the spatial localitydecreases.