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demand paging

noun

Definitions

  1. A form of memory management using paging, whereby pages in a process's address space are…

    A form of memory management using paging, whereby pages in a process's address space are only allocated and mapped to physical memory (frames) the moment the process needs to use them, rather than ahead-of-time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for demand paging. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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