Scalar Architecture: Cache System

• The hierarchy of memory devices:

• • The goal of Memory Hierarchy:
    • access speed ~ fastest memory
    • effective capacity ~ size of largest memory

• -> Programs should follow the principle of locality: (Use items in the cache)

  • Spatial locality of reference (use all words in cache line)
  • Temporal locality of reference (use same cache line)

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