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		namibj 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why does C have the best file API Nah, usually can't have huge pages. Almost certainly can't have giant pages. Can't even fit all L3$ capacity into the L2 TLB if done via 4k pages...

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nixon_why69 5 days ago [–]

I hadn't thought of that but apparently Linux at least has had support for a while, according to manpage? https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mmap.2.html

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