Review of Memory Hierarchy - Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach - page 547

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Review of Memory Hierarchy
Cache: a safe place for hiding or storing things.
Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language
Second College Edition (1976)
B.1 Introduction
B.2 Cache Performance
B.3 Six Basic Cache Optimizations
B.4 Virtual Memory
B.5 Protection and Examples of Virtual Memory
B.6 Fallacies and Pitfalls
B.7 Concluding Remarks
B.8 Historical Perspective and References
Exercises by Amr Zaky
B.1 Introduction
This appendix is a quick refresher of the memory hierarchy, including the basics of cache and
virtual memory, performance equations, and simple optimizations. This first section reviews
the following 36 terms: