Designers have to take a number of factors into account when selecting the line length of a cache. In general, increasing the length of a cache’s lines increases the hit rate, due to the property of locality. Increasing the line length increases the amount of data that is brought into the cache when a cache miss occurs. Since addresses close to the address of a miss are likely to be referenced soon alter a miss, using long cache lines means that each miss brings more data that is likely to be in referenced soon into the cache, preventing misses if that data is referenced.