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Memory refers to the physical devices used to store programs or data on a temporary or permanent basis for use in a computer or other digital electronic device.
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Why is CPU cache memory so fast?
It is faster because both it is closer and because it is SRAM not DRAM.
SRAM is and can be considerably faster than DRAM the values are kept statically (the S in SRAM) so they don't have to be refr …
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What are memory addresses?
the address is tossed onto this bus and then the postman takes over, layers of logic pick apart the address to determine where it needs to go back into the chip or out to peripherals or memory on the board … mmus if you have one virtualize addresses so that your application or every application may feel like it starts at some address like 0x0000 and has 0x000 to N bytes of memory to itself so that all programs …