Invisible schrieb:
> 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...)

Ah yes - those animals. I knew I had read about TLBs somewhere somewhen.

> I only know this because I read the Intel reference manuals. For no 
> reason other than curiosity.

Did that, too - but that's probably about a decade ago, and apparently I 
never really needed that stuff :-)

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