> It's your L2 cache. Stuff like this is why I love Hacker News. Rather than making up abstract, weird analogies between a thing, and another very abstract thi

> It's your L2 cache. Stuff like this is why I love Hacker News. Rather than making up abstract, weird analogies between a thing, and another very abstract thing I find even more difficult to understand, we can make analogies to technical terms which most people here understand [citation needed], and which anyone who doesn't can easily look up.