Thanks for the corrections. On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:29 PM, John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As Tom Marchant has already pointed out, Hobart Spitz's view of page > stealing is mistaken. > > Perhaps even more important his view of how the ASM [Auxiliary Storage > Manager] works is also mistaken. No page that has not been modified > is paged out. (One of the minor but important merits of reentrant > coding is/was that by segregating never paged-out code pages and > frequently paged-out data pages it reduces paging overheads > significantly.) > > His post did have the virtue of reviving the [predominantly British] > term 'backing store' which has always seemed to be to be a very good, > self-descriptive one, the wider of which is now unfortunately all but > precluded by other, different and preemptive, uses of the too similar > term 'backing storage'. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > -- OREXXMan
