Quiz submission record for quiz6-2-1 at Wed Jul 28 01:34:11 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
the contents are stored in the cache in the location indicated by the index field, which is a 10 bit address. the "tag" is used to identify if this is a new item or if it was previously stored there. 

000000000000000000 0000000000 0000
000000000000000000 0000000011 0101 

so this would be position number 3 in the cache. the tag field would be 0, as shown above.

Your Answer for Question 2:
because the difference in how this bit of code accesses memory will make a significant difference in the amount of time it takes to execute the code.


Your unique submission ID is quiz6-2-1-cs61c-ca-1091003651-221.