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What is the effect of block size in cache design?

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When designing a cache, you have to consider this things:

  • Delay.
  • Miss rate.
  • Area.

If the cache has a bigger block size may have a lower delay, but when miss the miss rate will be costly. If an application has high spatial locality a bigger block size will do well, but programs with poor spatial locality will not because a miss rate will be high and seek time will be expensive.

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