Tag: demand paging
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Looks like one hope/theory knocked on the head
Now I have mapped the speed of OPT and LRU using a traditional two level memory hierarchy, my task is to find something better that might make NoC a more viable computing platform. One thought that occurred to me was that the preference of C and similar languages for page aligned memory in certain situations […]
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Using XSLT to manipulate an SVG file
I am generating a lot of the graphics for my project using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) – an XML format. The advantages of SVG are obvious – it is human readable, it preserves some of the data in the output (eg in the relative placing of the dots on a graph), Groovy has good support […]
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What that working set comparison graph should have looked like
The graphs look similar but the differences are important – this one (the correct one), appears to confirm that Peter Denning‘s findings about the working set model versus LRU still hold good, at least in broad terms – though this still suggests LRU has better performance characteristics than might be expected. But it’s late now […]
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I failed art at school
Art was the only subject in which I failed a school exam – getting a low 30-something in 1980’s end of year tests. Not that I cared much. But as the years have gone by I have on more than one occasion wished I was rather better at it. Even now, trying to write a […]
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