Practice - Multiple Levels of Cache
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Practice Questions
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What does SRAM stand for?
💡 Hint: Consider what type of memory it is.
What does DRAM stand for?
💡 Hint: Similar to SRAM but dynamic.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does cache memory do?
💡 Hint: Think about the relationship between cache and CPU speed.
True or False: DRAM is faster than SRAM.
💡 Hint: Recall speed comparisons from earlier discussions.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a simple memory hierarchy for a hypothetical computer with given costs and speeds for SRAM, DRAM, and magnetic disks. Justify your choices.
💡 Hint: Consider the trade-off between speed and storage capacity.
Analyze a given program accessing data structures and identify examples of temporal and spatial locality in its memory access patterns.
💡 Hint: Review how data is accessed in tight loops and sequential lists.
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