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0 pointshyc_symas2y ago0 comments

The mention of a large shared flat address space implied no paging, to me. Maybe I just read something into it that wasn't there.

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moonchild2y ago

The 'paging' is implemented in software, not in hardware. This is how databases not using mmap already work, so mmus are already pure overhead for them.

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moonchild2y ago

The 'paging' is implemented in software, not in hardware. This is how databases not using mmap already work, so mmus are already pure overhead for them.

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