Understanding Virtual Memory

by jfriedly • 15 years ago

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bane• 15 years ago

Had the great pleasure of being one of his students years ago during my undergrad. Hands down the best professor I've ever had.

keeperofdakeys• 15 years ago

Here are some other great resources on understanding how the OS (in this case linux) manages the memory, and how the hardware works.

f3r3nc• 15 years ago

The LWN article is from What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory: http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf also discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511990

gns24• 15 years ago

I've found the set of short articles on memory here to be excellent:

kunjaan• 15 years ago

Those are amazing! Thank you for sharing.

______• 15 years ago

I love seeing links like this on HN: you can actually learn something, not just read some opinionated article :)

BlueZeniX• 15 years ago

Makes me wonder how fast OS level garbage collection could be, without the need to have a virtual memory layer in between...

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