[ykumar6]

They are making 2 separate arguments then. What they are arguing against is standardization, which is just as important

[vezzy-fnord]

Addressed in Section 4, Question 3.

[ykumar6]

The question remains if companies and developers value or care about the flexibility of creating "page table rules".

For highly scalable systems, the perf trade-off is just a matter of spinning up more VMs.

The higher-order benefit is you can expect your operating system and VM to behave the same, no matter what

[reagency]

Spinning up more VMs costs more. That was a bigger issue in 1996 than now, but still an issue for large deployments.