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Scratchpad

Scratchpad meaning

A pad of paper for preliminary notes or sketches or writings, etc. | A piece of temporary memory to hold details of a current conversation, usually scratchpad memory.

Example sentences (2)

Accumulators dramatically improve performance in systems like these by providing a scratchpad area where the results of one operation can be fed to the next one for little or no performance penalty.

It derives from the intuition of " memory " as a scratchpad.