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UWA week 43 (2nd semester, study break) ↓

final exam 2021 Exam Q4 (all 5)

6:03am Tue 24th Oct, Christopher M.

ANONYMOUS wrote:

> So I've attached a Q from a final exam. I understand what the memory heirachy is, but im unsure with how the referential locality comes into play with this.

Given that certain regions of memory contain very frequently required instructions or data, does it make sense that hardware and an operating-system would attempt to automatically, or 'cleverly', ensure that those frequently accessed memory regions reside in the fastest available memory?