Practice - Cache Hits and Misses
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Practice Questions
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What is a cache hit?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when data retrieval is quick.
What happens during a cache miss?
💡 Hint: What does it mean when a cache search fails?
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does a cache hit mean?
💡 Hint: Think about the efficiency of data retrieval.
True or False: A cache miss is preferable to a cache hit.
💡 Hint: Consider the implications of data access speed.
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Challenge Problems
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Consider a direct-mapped cache with 32 lines and a block size of 8 bytes. Calculate the cache line for a byte address of 5280.
💡 Hint: Use division for block number, followed by modulus for the cache line.
If a direct-mapped cache has 64 lines and a word size of 4 bytes, how many blocks can the cache store if the total cache size is 16 KB?
💡 Hint: Explore the relationship between total size, block size, and cache lines.
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