Saturday 3 September 2011

On-Chip Cache Memory (2)

L2, cache memory, which is on a separate chip from the microprocessor but faster to
access than regular RAM.
It is the small size and proximity to the microprocessor makes access times short,
resulting in a boost in performance. Microprocessors predict what data will be required
for future calculations and it pre-fetches that data and places it in the cache so that it is
available immediately when the need arises.

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