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/Basic Technique: Limited Direct Execution
Basic Technique: Limited Direct Execution
In this lesson, you will learn about direct execution and its limitations.
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Direct execution protocol
To make a program run as fast as one might expect, not surprisingly OS developers came up with a technique, which we call limited direct execution. The “direct execution” part of the idea is simple: just run the program directly on the CPU. Thus, when the OS wishes to start a program ...