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On Wed, May 26, 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > Palm has taken an interesting approach to get rid of fragmentation: the > OS is allowed to move (some) structures from one physical memory > location to another. This only works if the processes that use this > memory are written to support this, of course. Its not a new technique - if you allocate memory "handlers" rather than addresses and ask the OS/Memorymanager to lock a handler in memory (and give you an address) then the OS/MM is able to move around unlocked memory blocks, even on/off disk, at whim. Win16 memory allocation looked like this, and I'm sure it was lifted from something even older. Its not actually a bad idea in a single-process standalone application. It certainly beats using a VM in this instance. Anyway, back to the network topics. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd I'm only a fanboy if <[email protected]> I emailed Wesley Crusher.
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