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==Memory Hierarchy== | ==Memory Hierarchy== | ||
===Registers=== | ===Registers=== | ||
* Primary references: Allen/Kennedy ch. 8, Muchnick ch. 16 | * Primary references: Allen/Kennedy ch. 8, Muchnick ch. 16 | ||
* Take advantage of temporal locality and, in a sense, spatial locality at the subword level. | * Take advantage of temporal locality and, in a sense, spatial locality at the subword level. | ||
* Loop fusion merges loops in order to enhance temporal locality | * Loop fusion merges loops in order to enhance temporal locality | ||
** Especially relevant for machine-generated (preprocessed) input | ** Especially relevant for machine-generated (preprocessed) input | ||
===Caches=== | ===Caches=== | ||
* Primary references: Allen/Kennedy ch. 9, Muchnick ch. 20. See also [[Architecture#Caches|Caches]] on the [[Architecture]] page. | * Primary references: Allen/Kennedy ch. 9, Muchnick ch. 20. See also [[Architecture#Caches|Caches]] on the [[Architecture]] page. | ||
