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Re: need help with cache homework~!

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Originally Posted by ddfan1234 View Post
// What do they mean by creating an address stream with 100 accesses in it???
In the context of a memory cache, an address stream would be a list of memory access events. Each access is to a specific address at a specific time. A typical system can have many address streams mixed in with each other, and one of the jobs of a good cache manager is to detect patterns in the stream and split out certain accesses into separate streams.