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+# CacheSim
+CacheSim is an Elm-based website to simulate various cache hierarchy configurations. It supports
+fully associative, direct mapped, and n-way set associative caches.
+
+## Building and Hosting
+CacheSim is entirely a front-end project. As long as the HTML, CSS, and generated JavaScript
+are hosted somewhere, it will work.
+
+CacheSim is built using Elm and Sass. As such, you will need the compilers for the two
+languages. On Arch Linux, this means `sassc` for Sass, and `elm-platform-bin` (from AUR).
+On other platforms, you can use npm:
+
+```
+npm install -g elm sass
+```
+
+Now, to build the project, you can use the following commands:
+```
+mkdir -p static/js
+mkdir -p static/css
+sassc static/scss/style.scss static/css/style.css
+elm make src/Main.elm --output=static/js/elm.js --optimize
+```
+Replace `sassc` with `sass` in the third command if you installed Sass from npm.
+
+Now, the `index.html` file and everything in the `static` folder can be safely copied
+into any directory exposed by a web server. I use my university public\_html folder.
+Below are the SFTP commands I use to upload a fresh copy of the project:
+```
+put index.html public_html/ECE472/index.html
+put -r static public_html/ECE472/static
+```