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> Every time the operating system decides that it’s time to run a different process, all caches are invalidated (on account of the virtual memory system). Unle
by bstx 14y ago
> Every time the operating system decides that it’s time to run a different process, all caches are invalidated (on account of the virtual memory system).
Unless you have a virtually indexed cache I don't see why an OS would want to do that.