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From: "R. Kent Dybvig" <dyb@cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Validating/using all 2^lgn address bits
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bos@dcs.gla.ac.uk (Bryan O'Sullivan) writes:

>I don't know what the Chez folks make of the possibilities of thrashing
>the TLB or cacking on access locality as mentioned by Rob MacLachlan.

I didn't see the note by Rob MacLachlan, but since Chez Scheme's
segments are contiguous rather than spread throughout virtual memory
these problems do not occur significantly more often than with flat
heap layouts.

R. Kent Dybvig                 | Computer Science Department
dyb@cs.indiana.edu             | Indiana University
812/855-6486                   | Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
