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: Cache (pronounced cash) memory is extremely fast memory that is built into a computer's central processing unit (CPU), or located next to it on a separate chip. : The disk cache is used to hold the most recently-accessed information from the hard disk. If you are using your PC for work that is hard-disk-intensive, you may benefit from increasing the size of your disk cache.The CPU uses cache memory to store instructions that are repeatedly required to run programs, improving overall system speed. The advantage ofcache memory is that the CPU does not have to use the motherboard's system bus for data transfer. Whenever data must be passed through the system bus, the data transfer speed slows to the motherboard's capability. The CPU can process data much faster by avoiding the bottleneck created by the system bus.

When the processor needs to read from or write to a location in main memory, it first checks whether a copy of that data is in the cache. If so, the processor immediately reads from or writes to the cache, which is much faster than reading from or writing to main memory.

The diagram on the right shows two memories. Each location in each memory has a datum (a cache line), which in different designs ranges in size from 8[1] to 512[2] bytes. The size of the cache line is usually larger than the size of the usual access requested by a CPU instruction, which ranges from 1 to 16 bytes. Each location in each memory also has an index, which is a unique number used to refer to that location. The index for a location in main memory is called an address. Each location in the cache has a tag that contains the index of the datum in main memory that has been cached. In a CPU's data cache these entries are calledcache lines or cache blocks.

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It takes a long time, in computer time, for the CPU to retrieve stuff out of RAM while running a program. So to speed things up cache was built. Cache holds a small part of the program you are working with and it is easy and fast for the CPU to retrieve it from cache. Cache is memory and it holds data for the CPU.


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