Talk:Shadow memory

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Purpose of shadow memory

There isn't any mention of the purpose of employing shadow memory. Can somebody fill this in please? Cheers Wikidsoup _[talk] 20:10, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I concur, this article deserves a "Worst article on Wikipedia award", nothing at all is said about WHY this technique is used... 130.241.209.200 (talk) 15:59, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]