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I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised that it loaded the whole thing. How could the OS predict how much to load (or wait on)? Waiting for a page to load just fo

I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised that it loaded the whole thing. How could the OS predict how much to load (or wait on)? Waiting for a page to load just for the next function call would be hugely expensive.

masklinn 7y ago
> How could the OS predict how much to load (or wait on)? The same way it does for every other bit of allocated memory: it allocates the physical page on a page fault in a valid mapping.