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by mort96 107 days ago
"Page" is OS terminology. "Arena" is Go terminology. An arena is made up of sequential pages. Go asks the OS for 64MB of sequential memory, and calls that 64MB chunk an arena; this is consistent with the text you quoted. It is not incorrect.
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Thank you, I stand corrected! I must have been tired originally reading this.
Cunningham’s Law in action (thanks for the summary)