Huh?   I fail to see how your post relates.  Future real storage requirements
has nothing to do with this.   No paging (fixed) is better than paging -
no matter how little and how fast it is.  Period.  

Mark
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On Thu, 2 May 2013 10:56:46 -0400, Thomas H Puddicombe <[email protected]> wrote:

>Unless Parkinson's Law has been repealed, demand for any "finite" resource
>(such as central storage) will continue to outstrip supply.  Also, the Law
>of Unintended Consequences seems also to be in full force and effect.
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>>I suspect that any real performance gains will happen with the EC12
>>processor equipped with flash memory as a paging device.
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>The zEC12 allows large pages to be paged to flash.  While that may lessen
>the need for the total amount of real storage,  how can it be better
>performing
>than fixed 1M pages that are the only option for large pages prior to the
>zEC12 with flash?
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