Multiple choice

More than one word are put in one cache block to

  1. Exploit the temporal locality of reference in a program

  2. Exploit the spatial locality of reference in a program

  3. Reduce the miss penalty

  4. None of the above

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Explanation

Cache is the small memory which has a very less access time. So it is used for temporal locality of reference whereas virtual memory is for spatial locality of reference.