Comment Comment by bnegreve > There are many other cache replacement policies [1] and they can outperform LRU especiallyThe article is about CPU caches so speed and memory usage are very critical.One of the main benefit of LRU is that it only needs one extra bit per cache line. parent bnegreve 9 years ago
The article is about CPU caches so speed and memory usage are very critical.
One of the main benefit of LRU is that it only needs one extra bit per cache line.