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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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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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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different cache levels. Branch predictor Cache (computing) Cache algorithms Cache coherence Cache control instructions Cache hierarchy Cache placement...
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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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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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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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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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computer architecture, cache coherence is the uniformity of shared resource data that is stored in multiple local caches. In a cache coherent system, if...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Peer-to-peer caching (P2P caching) is a computer network traffic management technology used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to accelerate content...
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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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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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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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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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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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Ccache (category Cache (computing))
development tool that caches compilations so that the next time, the same compilation can be avoided and the results can be taken from the cache. This can greatly...
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The cache manifest in HTML5 was a software storage feature which provided the ability to access a web application even without a network connection. It...
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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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Dinero is a uniprocessor CPU cache simulator for memory reference traces written by Dr. Jan Edler and Prof. Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin–Madison...
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Native cloud application (category Cache (computing))
software that natively utilizes services and infrastructure from cloud computing providers such as Amazon EC2, Force.com, or Microsoft Azure. NCAs exhibit...
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