 Cache miss rate (source code)

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= Cache miss rate
{title2=$m=M/R$}

The fraction of $R>0$ <memory references> yielding <cache misses>, with $M$ their count: $m=M/R$. When each reference is classified as exactly one <cache hit> or <cache miss>, $h+m=1$; the two-slot <fully associative cache> example has $m=7/12$.

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