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Small
cache of expensive
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but
very fast memory
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interacting
with slower but
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much
larger memory
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Invisible
to OS and user
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programs
but interact with
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other
memory management
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hardware
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Processor
first checks if
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word referenced to is in
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cache
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If
not found in cache, a
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block of memory containing
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the
word is moved to the
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cache
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