Memory Hierarchy - Example Use of The Term

Example Use of The Term

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• Adding complexity slows down the memory hierarchy.
• CMOx memory technology stretches the Flash space in the memory hierarchy
• One of the main ways to increase system performance is minimising how far down the memory hierarchy one has to go to manipulate data.
• Latency and bandwidth are two metrics associated with caches and memory. Neither of them is uniform, but is specific to a particular component of the memory hierarchy.
• Predicting where in the memory hierarchy the data resides is difficult.
• ...the location in the memory hierarchy dictates the time required for the prefetch to occur.