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Thanks for the points. I think the idea that was raised about using VIVT caches covers up most of the cost of memory translation as long as there is no extra lookup. The first three points would be covered by that case. That allows for more flexibility. Certainly most current CPUs are not hugely imp...

What about JIT systems like the JVM? The just-in-time compiler and the code it has compiled may be treated as two a separate processes. The JIT compiler is only run once, while the code it has compiled may run multiple times. A code interpreter for script languages is more critical because the memo...

First, just had to say that I really am impressed with the amount of work that has gone into this whole project! Wow! I see a lot of really good and interesting ideas. I read through the section in the manual on the various things that will help avoid memory fragmentation. Here is a list of the thin...