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One advantage is that the application gets full control over the page tables. At least one program I work on would gain huge advantages in that kind of environm
by phire 11y ago
One advantage is that the application gets full control over the page tables. At least one program I work on would gain huge advantages in that kind of environment.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoThe same is true for microkernels, FWIW. As far back as Mach, a large advantage was separating the mechanism of VMM from the policy of handling page faults, which was done by external pagers in userspace.