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How do L1, L2 and L3 caches interact with stack and heap, why are some structures cache friendly, and what happens on dynamic allocation?

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Explain how the L1, L2 and L3 CPU caches interact with the stack and the heap, why some data structures are more cache friendly than others, and what happens under the hood when memory is allocated dynamically.

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