Clarifying memory management with page folios

Posted Aug 3, 2021 8:40 UTC (Tue) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)
Parent article: Clarifying memory management with page folios

Sounds like folio is basically what Haskell or Rust would call a newtype over page that indicates that certain precondition checks have already been performed.

Clarifying memory management with page folios

Posted Sep 12, 2021 9:37 UTC (Sun) by deepfire (guest, #26138) [Link] (1 responses)

Bingo!

..and it's surprising how much resistance does this encounter, given the improvements.

Clarifying memory management with page folios

Posted Mar 26, 2025 15:42 UTC (Wed) by fest3er (guest, #60379) [Link]

Late, but have to add me tuppence, recalling the proverbial bit bucket that sat on the floor next to mainframes of old.

'Bucket-o-bytes', which shortens to 'bob'.

And Bob's yer uncle.

OK. Maybe not.

Clarifying memory management with page folios

Posted Oct 16, 2021 9:05 UTC (Sat) by hidave (subscriber, #18406) [Link] (1 responses)

Another recommendation maybe not known in English world : juan, it means something like "volume"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan

Clarifying memory management with page folios

Posted Oct 16, 2021 10:24 UTC (Sat) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

Indeed, almost nobody in the Anglosphere is going to think of a word from any of the languages of China when they see "juan".

If anything comes to mind at all, it's most likely to be the Spanish form of the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן‎ (Yôḥānān), equivalent to English John, German Johann, Russian Иван, French Jean, etc.