Improving Direct-Mapped Cache Performance by the Addition of a Small Fully-Associative Cache and Prefetch Buffers by Norm Jouppi

• Q1: Briefly describe the experiment and/or analysis Jouppi might have performed to generate the data for the graph in figure 2-2.

• Q2: Using what you've learned in class and from the textbook readings, briefly discuss a few interesting similarities and/or differences in the memory hierarchy described by Jouppi and a typical memory hierarchy for today's processors.

• Q3: Assume that you must choose between adding either a victim cache or a multi-stream buffer to a modern microprocessor. Discuss which one you would choose and why.