Techniques for Improving Cache Performance
  • Techniques for reducing the miss rate.
    • increase the associativity (helps exploit temporal locality)
    • increase the block size (helps exploit spatial locality)
  • Techniques for reducing the miss penalty
    • using wrap-around-fill (early restart and critical word first)
    • using secondary caches
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