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You'd have to very solidly prove that in the wors-case a cache only ever make execution time equal to or faster than a processor not using cache and never causes anything to be slower.


Even that is not enough. The cache may make everything faster, but it could lead to higher contention on a different physical resource slowing things down there. The cache cannot be guaranteed to prevent that.




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