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>> ...OK, how many other people here felt an irresistablel urge to try to
>> answer all of those?
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> I'd be having trouble with the translation look-aside buffer right now.
> I have a feeling that it's about cache memory, or command execution
> queue, but that's about how far I spontaneously get without resorting to
> My Friend.
>
> But aside from that - yeah :-)
TLB - convert from virtual memory addresses to physical memory
addresses. It's basically a cache of the page mappings. (Let's face it,
accessing RAM for every memory access to figure out where in physical
memory the requested virtual address is would be *really* slow...)
I only know this because I read the Intel reference manuals. For no
reason other than curiosity.
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