Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys...
by psd1 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @07:00AM
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That would require the application to support it. Like, "got anything you can dealloc?" "Oh shoot, now you mention it..."
What exists already in the Windows VMM, and I assume other OSes VMMs, is a distinction between allocated and committed. That's likely to be the best that's realistically achievable. The win VMM also has a last-accessed strategy for paging to disk, and de-duplication of shared pages.
What exists already in the Windows VMM, and I assume other OSes VMMs, is a distinction between allocated and committed. That's likely to be the best that's realistically achievable. The win VMM also has a last-accessed strategy for paging to disk, and de-duplication of shared pages.