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Large pages, large blocks, and large problems

Large pages, large blocks, and large problems

Posted Sep 20, 2007 13:42 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)
In reply to: Large pages, large blocks, and large problems by sayler
Parent article: Large pages, large blocks, and large problems

Intel's Itanium supports page sizes in all powers of 2 from 4K to 256M. That's a current-gen Intel chip.


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Large pages, large blocks, and large problems

Posted Sep 21, 2007 14:58 UTC (Fri) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]

It may be present generation, but any software developer who made decisions based on the assumption of increased adoption of Itanium is crazy.

Large pages, large blocks, and large problems

Posted Sep 21, 2007 17:21 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Current generation intel chips are clones of AMD64.

Large pages, large blocks, and large problems

Posted Sep 21, 2007 18:33 UTC (Fri) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]

Not really, or they would have included more of the good parts like the IOMMU and memory controller.

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