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From: jsp@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (John Pieper)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: automagic overlays?
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Date: 9 Nov 90 23:03:51 GMT
Reply-To: jsp@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (John Pieper)
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Is anybody out there old enough to remember when we used overlays?
What I want to know is what is the current state of the art in 
compiler-managed overlays: is this considered a solved problem, or did people
just decide that since we had paging it was unimportant? 

I am aware of the efforts at optimizing programs for virtual memory systems,
and the work at compiler-controlled caching, both of which are related
problems, but I can't find anything on compiler-managed overlays.

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