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Comment by nabla9

7 years ago

The problems of allocating memory addresses in global scale requires distributed probabilistic addressing or otherwise inefficient address space distributions.

You don't want to share the same compact memory allocator with the malloc(3) from the other side of the galaxy, or even different city.

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