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That's not a good reason. That is virtual address space, not physical memory, and processes have plenty of it, usually about 280TB.
by akvadrako 8y ago
That's not a good reason. That is virtual address space, not physical memory, and processes have plenty of it, usually about 280TB.
- jnwatson 8y agoYou have a very small number of values that can stay in L2 cache on a 2 MiB boundary, 12 on Skylake. The data TLB is only 4 way. Modern high performance software is about cache management, and spreading your data across swaths of page-aligned memory without strong control of when you get scheduled out underutilizes that most precious resource on the CPU.