What is a victim cache and how is it used?

What will be an ideal response?


A victim cache is a low?cost means of improving the performance of conventional cache. When a cache is full (or there is no room for a new line), an existing line has to be ejected. Because the expelled line was once put in the cache, there is a possibility that it might be needed again. The victim holds lines recently expelled from the cache. However, the victim cache (which is small) is fully associative which means that the effective associativity of the cache is increased at relatively little cost.

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When the recursion step executes:

a. this is known as indirect recursion. b. all of the computer’s processes halt until the recursion step has completed executing. c. the original call to the method is still active. d. All of the above.

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A ________ is used to protect literary and artistic works

A) copyright B) patent C) trademark D) public domain

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A back-end database file contains _________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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