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Since the earliest days of microprocessors, system designers have been plagued by a problem in which the) P) p; f# B4 C* {; r
speed of the CPU's operation exceeded the bandwidth of the memory subsystem to which it was connected.
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adopted solution was to use an area of faster (and thus more expensive) memory to cache main memory data.1 X, X: z8 E H
This solution allowed the CPU to operate at its natural speed as long as the data it required was available in z' a7 R7 [: Q, i5 z. R `; U4 L
the cache. |
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