The speed of the memory system aff ects the designer’s decision on the size of the cache block. Which of the following cache designer guidelines are generally valid? 1. Th e shorter the memory latency, the smaller the cache block 2. Th e shorter the memory latency, the larger the cache block 3. Th e higher the memory bandwidth, the smaller the cache block 4. Th e higher the memory bandwidth, the larger the cache block

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