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A stored copy of (or pointers to) previously accessed data. The main implementation in computer architecture is to use a small area of very fast memory to store copies of recently accessed information from your main memory (RAM) or hard drive, which are a lot slower. In web browsers, page data is cached on the local hard drive to speed site access while reducing bandwidth demands. Alternatively, site templating engines such as Smarty (PHP), Velocity (Java) and Cheetah (Python) use caching to speed up the delivery of dynamically generated content while reducing server demands.

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