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…the speed gap between the main memory and CPU. Almost immediately after
that all gigantic chip-vendors introduced cache to their processors [59], [113], [158].
Today, processors are having multiple processing cores and most processors have on-chip
level-1 cache (CL1) and off-chip level-2 cache (CL2) [35], [43], [102], [109], [110],
[134], [166]. Some…
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