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What is the pros and cons of:
– Physical cache (between MMU and Memory)
– Logical cache (between CPU and MMU)
from a programmer’s view? How to get the best of each of them?
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The article gives pros and cons of each type of caching system and states that both can be implemented at the same time. Froma programmer’s point of view, anytime I need not worry about virtual addressing and associated costs, its a win, but programming for cache hit/misses is going to affect performance much more than slight latency I believe. This area is not my forte, coming from small embedded systems programming though where caching is just now starting to become relevent to what I do.