Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:45:58 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Darin Johnson <> | | Subject | Re: Memory Management - BSD vs Linux |
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> "Hash table" just happens to be the IBM implementation for the TLB.
IBM isn't the only place to use a different term for the "page translation cache".
> Making it external to > the CPU doesn't make it a page table, it only makes it slower (but in all > fairness it also makes it bigger, which is obviously why they do it).
It makes it slower than an on-chip TLB, but it's still likely to be faster than a TLB miss (I assume they have an on-chip TLB as well).
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