CACHE

Area of your computer memory or directory on your hard disk. This is the place where your browser stores viewed Web pages . When you return to a page, the browser gets this page from the cache, saving you time. However, if you return to a page that changes a lot, you need to click the "Reload" button on your browser to get the latest version.

A storage area in both RAM (cache memory) and disc drives (cache controllers) that keeps frequently accessed instructions more readily accessible. (See also Bus )

A region of memory where frequently accessed data can be srored for rapid access.Browsers such as Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer hold copies of recently visited web files,both HTML,and binary files ,in disk memory.This disk space memory is called as the cache.It offers the advantage of much quicker loading when files are stored on disk than when they must be transferred from the web.

Pronounced like "cash", not "catch", and definitely not "cashé". There are many different types of caches but they all serve basically the same purpose. They store recently-used information in a place where it can be accessed extremely fast. For example, a web browser like Netscape Navigator uses a cache to store the pages, images, sounds, and URLs of web sites you visit on your hard drive. With this neat strategy, when you visit a page you have recently been to, everything doesn't have to be downloaded to your computer all over again. Because accessing your computer's hard disk is much faster than accessing the Internet, this speeds up web browsing significantly. Your computer also uses disk caching, which stores information you have recently read from your hard disk in the computer's RAM. Since accessing RAM is much faster than reading data off the hard disk, this helps speed up common functions on your computer. One more type of cache is a processor cache which stores small amounts of information on or next to the processor. This helps make the processing of common instructions much more efficient, thereby speeding up computation time. Neat, huh?