Compression is seen as a simple technique to increase the effective cache capacity. Unfortunately, compression techniques either incur tag area overheads or restrict cache block placement to only include neighboring addresses. Ideally, we should be able to place compressed cache blocks without any restrictions or overheads.
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Hong et al. (2019) studied this question.
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