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> Instead of always getting data in 4KiB pages, often times modern processors support “superpages” all the way up to the gigabytes. Page size is irrelevant for
by zajio1am 7y ago
> Instead of always getting data in 4KiB pages, often times modern processors support “superpages” all the way up to the gigabytes.
Page size is irrelevant for purposes of getting data from RAM to CPU / cache. This is done by cacheline size, which is usually 64 B. Higher page size helps with better TLB efficiency and also for disk to RAM copy (if that is strictly page-based).