Lesson 12 of 14 · about 10 min
The speed ladder
Fast memory is small and expensive; big storage is slow and cheap. Computers stack them in a hierarchy and keep the data you'll need next close to the CPU, in caches.
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In this lesson you'll learn:
- Memory hierarchy
- Cache
- Latency
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