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(trās kash)
(n.) An
instruction cache in a
microprocessor that stores
dynamic instruction sequences after they have been
fetched and
executed in order to follow the instructions at subsequent times without needing to return to the regular cache or the memory for the same instruction sequence. An advantage of the trace cache is it reduces the required fetch
bandwidth on the processing
pipeline.
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