Talk:CSC 456 Fall 2013/1c wa

Here are some suggestions for improving your page.

• My first suggestion is to read the Wikipedia article on CPU caches (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache) and look up the references at the end. You are not expected to duplicate this article, but it does offer several insights into how caches have changed over the years.

• To look for trends, it is helpful to search in dbs based on years. Look in specific dbs for how to do this. For example, in Google scholar, you can do it with "Advanced search", which is an option from the dropdown at the very right edge of the page.

• Using this approach, I found a paper from 1992: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=145814. It talks about _page coloring_ as a technique to allow lower-latency searching of caches.

• A plain Google search for '"cache associativity" trends' seems to return several useful results.