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To: Scumbria who wrote (92842)	2/13/2000 1:24:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573924

Re: if that were true, the entire L1 would be duplicated in the L2... I must have been reaching too far there. Can the 2-way vs. 16 way be viewed as the number of low order addresses that can be maintained for each high order address in the cache? In other words, with 2 way set association, 2 cache lines are available for a given memory block. With 16 way set association, 16 lines would be available for each block - so the 16-way cache can remember up to 16 iterations in the block, while the 2-way set associative cache will "forget" all but the 2 most recently accessed locations. The 16-way would only duplicate the 2 most recently accessed locations while "remembering" 14 other (older) accesses. Have I got something backwards? Dan