And, as it did in 1972, virtual memory gives you the effect of about twice as much real memory. Back then, a megabyte of memory cost about a million dollars. Today, a gigabyte of memory costs about five dollars. Why are we still bothering with paging?
We used it to enable analyzing trillion particle dark matter simulations a halo at a time, as though they were local. It was fun. We made it part of the way into implementing an fopencookie version, but ended up moving on to other projects.
Very cool! There's a slight difference in the replacement strategy, though: the narrator said that this one places the most recently zarked things on the top.
And, as it did in 1972, virtual memory gives you the effect of about twice as much real memory. Back then, a megabyte of memory cost about a million dollars. Today, a gigabyte of memory costs about five dollars. Why are we still bothering with paging?