This patent application was originally filed in November 1988. The application is currently active, i.e. not abandoned.
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A Subsettable Top Level Cache Background of the Invention 1. Field of the Invention. This invention relates in general to computers, and in particular to top level cache desgin. A conventional cache operates without the benefit of the information available to the compiler. Thrashing occurs when the use of two or more blocks contend for the single available block in a direct mapped cache.