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Posted Nov 29, 2007 18:16 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
In reply to: kmemcheck by dw
Parent article: kmemcheck

The code to map bits would be slower; maybe he did not like the tradeoff.


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Posted Nov 29, 2007 18:41 UTC (Thu) by lysse (subscriber, #3190) [Link]

When there's already a page fault happening on every memory access, I have some doubts of the
significance of such additional overhead.

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Posted Nov 29, 2007 18:52 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]

Well, hmmmm, I guess I was thinking just enough to stick my foot in my mouth :-)

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Posted Nov 29, 2007 19:06 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Also the extra memory accesses will tend to blow the cache more if you use 
more memory to track the uninit state.

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