Why are multiple levels of caches used in modern CPUs?
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I recently read about processors (mainly multi-processor) and I came across the concept of multi-level caches. These designs have several levels of cache in this case to increase the performance. I could not figure out, however, how a additional caches increases performance in the processor? Why no…
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The use of multiple cache levels is partially a mechanism to coordinate multi-core processors and partially a compromise between price and performance. In a processor with multiple cores, each core has its own L1 cache. This allows the core to read …
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