On Wed, May 26, 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> Palm has taken an interesting approach to get rid of fragmentation: the
> OS is allowed to move (some) structures from one physical memory
> location to another. This only works if the processes that use this
> memory are written to support this, of course.
Its not a new technique - if you allocate memory "handlers" rather than
addresses and ask the OS/Memorymanager to lock a handler in memory
(and give you an address) then the OS/MM is able to move around unlocked
memory blocks, even on/off disk, at whim.
Win16 memory allocation looked like this, and I'm sure it was lifted
from something even older.
Its not actually a bad idea in a single-process standalone application.
It certainly beats using a VM in this instance.
Anyway, back to the network topics.
Adrian
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