What do 'no ip mroute-cache' and 'no ip route-cache' mean?

QUESTION: What do "no ip mroute-cache" and "no ip route-cache" mean?

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No "ip mroute-cache" disables multicast fast switching or multicast distributed switching (MDS).

No "ip route-cache" starts process switching, in which each packet is checked for source and destination IP from the routing table. You get per-packet load balancing if you have more than one path to the destination.