Memory Hierarchy
P
registers
L1
L2
Main
Memory
DISK
Access time
Capacity
Block Size
Associativity
0.5 clk
1KB
8B
Explicitly
managed
(compiler)
1 clk
16KB
64B
2-way
set
assoc.
5 clks
1MB
128B
Direct
mapped
10-50 clks
1GB
4-16 KB
Fully
Associative
105 clks
10GB
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