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I saw such technique in 1986 (approx) year on hardware level - russia computer Elbrus did it. : Re: Cisco HFR > > 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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