Practice - Multi-Level Caches
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Practice Questions
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What is the primary function of a cache?
💡 Hint: Consider what is accessed frequently during program execution.
Explain temporal locality.
💡 Hint: Think about the last few items you accessed in memory.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the principle of spatial locality?
💡 Hint: Think about how related data items are often accessed together.
True or False? A write-back cache immediately writes data to memory upon a write operation.
💡 Hint: Consider how updates are managed in cache systems.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a multi-level cache system for a given processor architecture, describing the sizes and types of caches to use.
💡 Hint: Consider the speed requirements and typical data access patterns.
Analyze a case where increasing the cache line size negatively impacts the cache's performance.
💡 Hint: Think about how many items can be retained and accessible within the cache.
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