Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] None
Date: Thursday, 08 Oct 2020, 08:28:40

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > Why isn't write-allocate used with write-through (at least in most cases
    > it isnt)?

In write-through the value is always written to memory.
Thus write-allocate could only improve performance if
there was a read from that block soon after, which may
not occur often enough to be worthwhile.

--Stan-