What is cache memory?



What is cache memory?..

Answer / a.v.s.l.kalpana

cachememory is RAM that a computer micro processor(M.P)
access more quickly than it can access regularly RAM as the
M.P processes data it looks 1st inthe cache memory and it
finds the data there, it does not have to do more time
consuming reading of data from larger memory,cache memory
is some times described in levels of closeness and
accessibility to the M.P an L1 cache is on the same chip as
the M.P

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