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- What is the data cache behaviour of our program?
- How can it be improved?
- Why do cache hits occur?
- Spatial locality
- Temporal locality
- Why do cache miss occur?
- Compulsory (never seen before)
- Capacity (cache not big enough)
- Conflicts (cache not associative enough)
How can we arrange for the data to be in the cache already?
Paul H J Kelly
Thu Feb 6 22:02:49 GMT 1997