An intermediate data storage area with high performance but limited capacity. The term "cache" can refer to hardware cache (on a processor) or software cache (which stores commonly used values in a computer's memory).
An intermediate data storage area with high performance but limited capacity.
The term "cache" can refer to hardware cache (on a processor) or software cache (which stores commonly used values in a computer's memory) or to disk-cache (which stores information on disk, e.g. used with browsers).
For HW cache on CPU's please use the tag cpu-cache