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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