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cache hit

Finding and retrieving an instruction or item of data in a cache. Contrast with cache miss. See cache.

(storage)

cache hit - A request to read from memory which can satisfied from the cache without using the main memory.

Opposite: cache miss.

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This results in an improved cache hit ratio in comparison with existing products based on the SH-4 core.

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If a subsequent read I/O wants a block stored in the cache, a cache hit and then a long trip out to the disk pool is avoided.

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The SH7397's high-performance SH-4A CPU core has two separate 32-Kbyte, 4-way set-associative cache memories -- one for instructions and the other for data -- to improve the cache hit rate for higher throughput.

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