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From: moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss)
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Subject: Re: Page size and linkers (was: Re: SunMMU history)
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Date: 26 Jan 91 19:34:07 GMT
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In-reply-to: gdtltr@chopin.udel.edu's message of 26 Jan 91 00:04:24 GMT

I doubt that dynamic policy adjustment is looked at seriously very much, since
we're talking about algorithms that are committed to very fast hardware, and
least partly because caches are frequently on a critical path (*please*, I do
not mean to start some kind of flame war over the detailed veracity of this
phrase).
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		J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor
		Department of Computer and Information Science
		Lederle Graduate Research Center
		University of Massachusetts
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