what does a L2 cache in a processor do?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

It stores the most request data. Basically it speed up your computer because it dosen't have to travel far on the circuts. Actually not far only to the ram and back to the cpu. But still this takes up cpu cycles. L2 is the second level of cache. Sometimes it's place beside the processor or other times it's on the processor.

Answer 3

Diagram of a CPU memory cache. A CPU cache is a cache used by the central processing unit of a computer to reduce the average time to access memory. ... speak of a cache miss. In the case of a cache hit, the processor immediately reads or writes ... L1 and L2 caches:

Answer 4

think of it as a scratch pad for the central processor..it's the area where information is held while being worked on or used for compiling data. Kinda like ram on your processor board but much faster. You want to try to have a larger amount if your comparing cache to cache in deciding which unit to buy with all else being the same.