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{{main|CPU cache}}

Small memories on or close to the [[Microprocessor|CPU chip]] can be made faster than the much larger main memory. Most CPUs since the 1980s have used one or more caches, and modern general-purpose CPUs inside [[personal computer]]s may have as many as half a dozen, each specialized to a different part of the problem of executing programs. indeed

=== Disk cache ===