By
Steven Przybylski
Description
An authoritative book for hardware and software designers. Caches are by far the simplest and most effective mechanism for improving
computer performance. This innovative book exposes the characteristics of performance-optimal single and multi-level cache hierarchies
by approaching the cache design process through the novel perspective of minimizing execution times. It presents useful data on the relative
performance of a wide spectrum of machines and offers empirical and analytical evaluations of the underlying phenomena. This book will
help computer professionals appreciate the impact of caches and enable designers to maximize performance given particular implementation
constraints.
