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Memory Management<br />

Virtual Memory<br />

– Issues with page tables<br />

» the page table can be extremely large<br />

(consider the case of a 32-bit virtual address<br />

space: how many 4k page table entries are<br />

required? What about a 64-bit space?)<br />

» The mapping must be fast<br />

(Why? A virtual-to-physical mapping must be<br />

made for every memory reference)<br />

Copyright © 2007 <strong>David</strong> <strong>Vernon</strong> (www.vernon.eu)

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