Hybrid Approach: Paging and Segments
Explore how combining paging and segmentation creates a hybrid memory management system that reduces page table size and improves efficiency. Learn how segment-based page tables work and their benefits and limitations in managing virtual memory.
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Whenever you have two reasonable but different approaches to something in life, you should always examine the combination of the two to see if you can obtain the best of both worlds. We call such a combination a hybrid. For example, why eat just chocolate or plain peanut butter when you can instead combine the two in a lovely hybrid known as the
Introducing the hybrid approach
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