The effectiveness of the cache memory is based on the property of ________

The effectiveness of the cache memory is based on the property of locality of reference. This principle states that a computer program accesses the same set of memory locations repetitively over a short period of time. There are two types of locality of reference: temporal (recently accessed items are likely to be accessed again in the near future) and spatial (items with nearby addresses tend to be accessed close together in time). This property makes cache memory an effective solution for reducing the average time to access data from the main memory.