- it takes some die space sure but no x86 processors are actually limited by instruction decoding (except, iirc, the first generation xeon phi in some cases) -

- it takes some die space sure but no x86 processors are actually limited by instruction decoding (except, iirc, the first generation xeon phi in some cases) - huge pages don't exactly require weird OS hoops although i agree the 4kb→2mb→1gb page sizes are inconvenient