International Commission on Irrigation & Drainage Commission Interationale des Irrigation et du Drainage
8347. Cache : A special high-speed storage mechanism, either as a reserved section of main memory or an independent high-speed storage device. This high-speed buffer memory is similar to a Scratch pad memory, but has a larger capacity; it is located in the Central Processing Unit. A cache can also serve as a storage section between the CPU and a hard disk to speed up access of data on the hard disk. | ||