CSAPP:Chapter1.5

1.5 Caches Matter

1）Physical laws

Larger storage devices are slower than smaller storage devices.

Faster devices are more expensive to build than their slower counterparts.  

2)To deal with the processor-memory gap

cache memories(or simply caches) that serves as temporary storage areas for information that the processor is likely to need in the near future.

 

3)Cache Level,SRAM(Static Random Access Memory)

Level 1 and level 2, maybe level 3 sometimes.

Level 1 (tens of thousands of bytes, nearly as fast as register file)

Level 2 (hundreds of thousands to millions of bytes, might take 5 times longer than L1 does but still 5 to 10 times faster than main memory)