Anticipatory paging strategies that load a few of a process's contiguous pages when the process references a nonresident page exploit ________.
A) spatial locality
B) block allocation
C) the process's space-time product
D) temporal locality

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Anticipatory paging strategies exploit spatial locality, which is the tendency of a process to access a set of contiguous memory locations. By loading a few contiguous pages, the strategy anticipates future page references, reducing page faults.

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