Comment by sestep

Gotcha, sorry for not picking up on the sarcasm. Yeah, I mean, I didn't really bother running the experiments many times for the smaller array sizes, so it could potentially be interesting to see if those artifacts persist when poked.

Could you clarify why there shouldn't be an OS difference? I was under the impression that it's the OS that handles how swap space is implemented (which was used by the first set of experiments), as well as how memory-mapped files are implemented (which was used by the second set of experiments). Am I mistaken about that?