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by jhg 5917 days ago
I'm not sure who's the intended audience of this. It is called an Introduction to Virtual Memory that is aimed at C programmers.

How many C programmers are out there that do not know how VM works?

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Plenty. In fact many get irate when you explain to them that thier nice "close to the metal" language is actualy doesnt talk directly to the memory, it has to go through a (albeit hardware assisted) transform moderated by a couple layers of stuff. The whole point of VM is to keep the illusion of working directly with memory/hw, because it is useful sometimes.