Paging: Also Too Slow

This lesson explains how paging can​ be slow and​ how this can affect the overall efficiency of the system.

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With page tables in memory, we already know that they might be too big. As it turns out, they can slow things down too.

Example

Take our simple instruction:

movl 21, %eax

Again, let’s just examine the explicit reference to address 21 and not worry about the instruction ...

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