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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 19:44:31 +0000
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>>For Linux such experiments had been done and results were very clear -
>>price of TLB flushes was considerable and that's aside of the complexity
>>of supporting a lot of mappings with partial VM sharing.  For Plan 9 the

were those real applications or a synthetic test?  i'm curious what it actually did.
sorry, wrong question.  can you please point me to the paper and/or file that might answer them?
i wonder about the claimed `complexity'.  then again, i've seen signal.h
not to mention sys/types.h