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This document discusses cache associativity, including direct-mapped, set associative, and fully associative caches. Direct-mapped caches have one sector per set, fully associative caches have one set containing all sectors, and set associative caches have multiple sectors per set. Higher associativity reduces conflict misses but increases lookup time. Recent processors use mild set associativity like 2-4 ways for caches to balance performance and complexity.

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