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Many more words on volatile ranges

Many more words on volatile ranges

Posted Nov 7, 2012 11:52 UTC (Wed) by juliank (subscriber, #45896)
In reply to: Many more words on volatile ranges by Trelane
Parent article: Many more words on volatile ranges

Most memory allocators don't do this on a page level though, but rather on a span of pages. Currently they use MADV_DONTNEED, but something that doesn't zero memory is more useful.


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Many more words on volatile ranges

Posted Nov 7, 2012 12:54 UTC (Wed) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

Ah, thanks!

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