Structural Memory Patterns (Part 6)
Another important pattern category is Memory Hierarchy. Typical examples include a complete memory dump with a physical to virtual mapping and paged out memory. Please note that page file is optional and paging can be implemented without a page file. There can be several layers of hierarchy, for example:
- physical memory
- virtualized physical memory
- virtual memory
Another example is from the protected mode x86 architecture:
- physical memory
- linear memory (paging, virtual)
- logical memory (segments)
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