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The Cache

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State

Cache memory is built from static RAM — very fast, expensive, small, volatile — sitting nearest the processor over the bus, and transparent to the programmer whose code it accelerates.

Show

An app speeds up between runs with no code change; the cache was doing its quiet work.

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Transparent means invisible, not irrelevant.