[Vm-dev] mmap'ing terrabyte uncommitted memory

[Ben Coman]

I was reading this thread [1] about slow speed of Haskell on Windows
Susbsytem for Linux which mentions GHC & Golang pre-allocate very large
uncommitted contiguous memory of 1TB & 0.5TB [2] respectively - and
wondering the benefits of that and how it might relate to opensmalltalk-VM?

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1671
[2]
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/663226d8e130470c1a627c64cf489261ebb6da08/src/runtime/malloc.go#L258-L286

cheers -ben
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