victim cache
victim cache
(architecture)Victim caches with as few as five places have been found toreduce conflict misses, especially for small, direct-mappeddata caches. E.g. a four-place victim cache removed 20% to95% (depending on program) of such misses in a 4-KB cache.
http://www.scism.sbu.ac.uk/ccsv/josephmb/CS-L2-MT/week12.html.