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Q33 / 100
What is the purpose of the TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffer)?
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The correct answer is B) A fast hardware cache for recently used page table entries, speeding up virtual-to-physical address translation
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Correct Answer
A fast hardware cache for recently used page table entries, speeding up virtual-to-physical address translation
Explanation
Without TLB, every memory access requires multiple page table lookups. The TLB caches recent translations, achieving near-hardware-speed memory access most of the time.
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