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Comment by user____name

3 days ago

Virtual memory gets rid of a lot of fragmentation issues.

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galangalalgol  3 days ago

Yeah. Fragmentation was a niche concern of that embedded use case. It had an mmu, just wasn't used by the rtos. I am surprised that allocations aren't a major hitter anymore. I still have to minimize/eliminate them in linux signal processing code to stay realtime.

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