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|    Stefan Monnier to All    |
|    SASOS and virtually tagged caches (was:     |
|    03 Oct 25 11:26:11    |
      From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca              >> | - virtually tagged caches       >> | You can't really claim to be worst-of-the-worst without virtually       >> |tagged caches.       >> | Tears of joy as you debug cache alias issues and of flushing caches       >> |on context switches.       > That is only true if one insists on OS with Multiple Address Spaces.       > Virtually tagged caches are fine for Single Address Space (SAS) OS.              AFAIK, the main problem with SASOS is "backward compatibility", most       importantly with `fork`. The Mill people proposed a possible solution,       which seemed workable, but it's far from clear to me whether it would       work well enough if you want to port, say, Debian to such       an architecture.                      Stefan              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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