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		Dylan16807 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A fast, growable array with stable pointers in C Do many programs want to use that much data but not control when it swaps in and out?

wittystick 7 months ago [–]

No, but 5-level paging is opt-in anyway, so its presence isn't problematic if assuming a 48-bit address space. Linux won't allocate space outside the 48-bits unless you give an address hint to mmap outside the 48-bit range.

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