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Practice Questions
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What does a virtually indexed cache use for indexing?
💡 Hint: Think about the type of addresses we often refer to in programming.
Define cold misses.
💡 Hint: Consider what happens when a cache is empty.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the main advantage of using a virtually indexed cache?
💡 Hint: What happens when an operation can skip an extra step?
True or False: Cold misses are generally beneficial for cache performance.
💡 Hint: What kind of misses slow things down?
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Challenge Problems
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Evaluate how various page replacement algorithms might deal with cold misses in relation to context switching.
💡 Hint: Consider how different strategies prioritize cached data.
Analyze a scenario involving two processes using the same virtual address mapped to different physical addresses and describe how it could cause the cache to malfunction.
💡 Hint: Think about how memory management ensures reliability.
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