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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   
      
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