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Comment by nine_k

4 days ago

Indeed. Also, TLB as it exists on x64 is not free, nor is very large. A multi-level "TLB", such that a process might pick an upper level of a large stretch of lower-level pages and e.g. allocate a disjoint micro-page for each stack frame, would be cool. But it takes a rather different CPU design.

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