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Address space is unlimited but pages are still 4K.


Right, I thought about large pages for that, unfortunately on Windows they’re pretty much useless. They require an elevated process, and they are incompatible with swap file i.e. they never paged to disk even when there’s low memory: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/large-...


and TLB is also a scarce resource.




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