xavierd

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   by xavierd 10y ago

   There is still significant sharing that can be achieved inside a VM, plus, a lot of the sharing come from zero pages (full of 0) which is still performed accross VMs. Another benefit of the salting mechanism is that it allows the administra
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   by xavierd 11y ago

   A lot of those optimizations would no longer yield any benefits[0]. The CPU archictecture evolved a lot in 16 years, especially in branch/code prediction to the point where a correctly predicted branch (without branch_likely) has almos
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   by xavierd 11y ago

   I would say you're documenting way too much: the obvious shouldn't need documentation.