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Glossary: Computer Hardware Basics

L1, L2, L3

Also written: L1, L2, L3, L1d, L1i, Unified

The three cache levels. L1 is the smallest and fastest, one per core and split into data and instructions; L2 is bigger, usually one per core; L3 is the largest and shared by all cores.

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