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From: wade@su-russell.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: autoload (was: Re: Against the Tide of Common LISP)
Message-ID: <257@su-russell.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 13:55:28 EST
Article-I.D.: su-russe.257
Posted: Tue Feb 24 13:55:28 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Feb-87 04:39:19 EST
Organization: Stanford University, CSLI
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When I said that Unix didn't handle VM well, I was refering to SUN
Unix. I wasn't complaining about locality problems - any virtual
memory system has a problem with scattered references.

I was complaining about the need to have the maximum amount of
swapping space (I tend to call it paging space) needed by a process
available at image startup. I've frequently been unable to run a Lisp
on the SUN because Unix doesn't think it has enough swapping space.

I also wish that Unix had features like copy-on-write and demand-zero
pages.