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Question 62

Computer Awareness Memory Management Hard

The idea of cache memory is based on the which of the following?

(A) Principle of locality reference.

(B) Based on the fact that large portion of a programis referenced relatively.

(C) Principle of 10 - 90 rule

(D) Non volatile storage

✓ Correct Answer: Option A Verified Solution

Cache memory works because of the principle of locality of reference:

Temporal locality: data used recently is likely to be used again soon.
Spatial locality: data near a recently used address is likely to be used soon.

So keeping recently used blocks in a small, fast cache serves most memory requests quickly.

Answer: (A)

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