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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:31:46 +0000
Subject: Re: larger default page sizes...
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From: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:25:58 +1100

> That depends on the access pattern.

Absolutely.

FWIW, I bet it helps enormously for gcc which, even for
small compiles, swims around chaotically in an 8MB pool
of GC'd memory.