That's really hard to drop. Fancier unix programs tend to make all kinds of assumptions about page size to do things like the double mapped ring buffer trick.

That's really hard to drop. Fancier unix programs tend to make all kinds of assumptions about page size to do things like the double mapped ring buffer trick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_buffer#Optimization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_buffer#Optimization In fact it looks like apple silicon maintains support for 4kb pages just for running Rosetta. It's one of those things like TSO that was enough of a pain to work around the assumptions that they just included hardware support for it that isn't enabled when running in regular arm software mode.