Support for paging in squeak.

Tobias Nurmiranta spyck at lysator.liu.se
Mon Feb 9 15:40:24 UTC 2004


On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Timothy Rowledge wrote:
> > To make it really efficient in practice, it probably will need
> > integration with the OS's paging mechanism.
> .. and there is what I suspect is the ugliest bit. Typical pagers for
> OSs seem to obsess on memory pages of a fixed size.

Another solution would be to do it in software with read- and
write-barriers. Pages, of fixed size or 2^n sizes, seems like an ok choice
of granularity when you want to use pointer swizzling and handle data and
mapping tables at several memory hierarchy levels.

Thanks for all the URL:s to relevant material.
,	Tobias



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