On 08/23/2010 11:56 AM, AJ ONeal wrote: > My educated guess is that dynamically allocated memory is subject to > fragmentation (just like a hard drive) and that this could lead to latency > in cases where the CPU is spending a few clock cycles performing the logic > to physically address the memory 100MB away to get the next bit of virtual > memory.
Unlikely. On CPUS that have virtual memory tables, *every* page access goes through the virtual memory system. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
