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I brought up pointer indirections as a way of illustrating how stringent some of these rules are and what sorts of forces are at play. Sorry for muddying matte
by mvanveen 14y ago
I brought up pointer indirections as a way of illustrating how stringent some of these rules are and what sorts of forces are at play. Sorry for muddying matters.
- adestefan 14y agoThe point is that you can still do all of that stuff even on staticly allocated memory. The other limitation in a lot of these systems is the underlying virtual memory system and some times there isn't one. Memory fragmentation issues are a huge problem when you have a couple kB to a few MB of physical RAM and a limited VM subsystem.