I also wonder, for typical workloads, what percent of CPU time is spent zeroing pages.
The amount of time wasted zeroing out memory pages in a typical OS is quite significant, also take into account that such an operation will trash perfectly good cache space for no good reason.
The amount of time wasted zeroing out memory pages in a typical OS is quite significant, also take into account that such an operation will trash perfectly good cache space for no good reason.