In computing, a cache (/kæʃ/ KASH) is a hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster; the...
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In computing, cache replacement policies (also known as cache replacement algorithms or cache algorithms) are optimizing instructions or algorithms which...
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different cache levels. Branch predictor Cache (computing) Cache algorithms Cache coherence Cache control instructions Cache hierarchy Cache placement...
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Cache prefetching is a technique used by computer processors to boost execution performance by fetching instructions or data from their original storage...
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an arbitrary location in the cache; it may be restricted to a particular cache line or a set of cache lines by the cache's placement policy. There are...
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Look up cache, caching, or caché in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cache, caching, or caché may refer to: Cache (computing), a technique used in computer...
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A Web cache (or HTTP cache) is a system for optimizing the World Wide Web. It is implemented both client-side and server-side. The caching of multimedia...
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In computing, a page cache, sometimes also called disk cache, is a transparent cache for the pages originating from a secondary storage device such as...
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A cache stampede is a type of cascading failure that can occur when massively parallel computing systems with caching mechanisms come under a very high...
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Cache hierarchy, or multi-level cache, is a memory architecture that uses a hierarchy of memory stores based on varying access speeds to cache data. Highly...
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higher level cache are also present in the lower level cache, then the lower level cache is said to be inclusive of the higher level cache. If the lower...
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common varieties are DNS cache poisoning and ARP cache poisoning. Web cache poisoning involves the poisoning of web caches (which has led to security...
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In computing, a distributed cache is an extension of the traditional concept of cache used in a single locale. A distributed cache may span multiple servers...
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In computing, a cache-oblivious algorithm (or cache-transcendent algorithm) is an algorithm designed to take advantage of a processor cache without having...
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Locality of reference (redirect from Cache locality)
efficiency of the cache, which is improved by increasing the locality of reference. Poor locality of reference results in cache thrashing and cache pollution...
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science, cache coloring (also known as page coloring) is the process of attempting to allocate free pages that are contiguous from the CPU cache's point...
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A CPU cache is a piece of hardware that reduces access time to data in memory by keeping some part of the frequently used data of the main memory in a...
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HTTP ETag (category Cache (computing))
that HTTP provides for Web cache validation, which allows a client to make conditional requests. This mechanism allows caches to be more efficient and saves...
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In computer programming, negative cache is a cache that also stores "negative" responses, i.e. failures. This means that a program remembers the result...
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External memory algorithm (redirect from Cache-aware model)
purpose CPUs and also includes GPU computing as well as classical digital signal processing. In general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU)...
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A victim cache is a small, typically fully associative cache placed in the refill path of a CPU cache. It stores all the blocks evicted from that level...
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MOESI protocol (category Cache (computing))
(For a detailed description see Cache coherency protocols (examples)) In computing, MOESI is a full cache coherency protocol that encompasses all of the...
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Glossary of computer hardware terms (redirect from Cache way)
within a cache to make room for new cache entries to be allocated; controlled by a cache replacement policy. Caused by a cache miss whilst a cache is already...
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Non-uniform memory access (redirect from Cache coherent NUMA)
ever-increasing amount of high-speed cache memory and using increasingly sophisticated algorithms to avoid cache misses. But the dramatic increase in...
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the web server, serving static pages, as a cache. However, unlike common reverse caches, the funky cache is part of the web server software, and has...
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architecture, cache coherence is the uniformity of shared resource data that ends up stored in multiple local caches. When clients in a system maintain caches of...
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In computer architecture, a trace cache or execution trace cache is a specialized instruction cache which stores the dynamic stream of instructions known...
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COASt, an acronym for "cache on a stick", is a packaging standard for modules containing SRAM used as an L2 cache in a computer. COASt modules look like...
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Cache pollution describes situations where an executing computer program loads data into CPU cache unnecessarily, thus causing other useful data to be...
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parallel computing: bit-level, instruction-level, data, and task parallelism. Parallelism has long been employed in high-performance computing, but has...
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