Yes, and Linux. at least historically, has not used them without explicit program opt-in. Often advice is to disable transparent huge pages for performance reas

Yes, and Linux. at least historically, has not used them without explicit program opt-in. Often advice is to disable transparent huge pages for performance reasons. Not sure about other operating systems. See, for example, https://www.pingcap.com/blog/transparent-huge-pages-why-we-disable-it-for-databases/ https://www.pingcap.com/blog/transparent-huge-pages-why-we-d...