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zero-page
- Aug 11, 2026 Demand Paging and the First-Touch Fault What happens between mmap returning and a page becoming resident, the three fault outcomes a handler must distinguish, and why anonymous memory is zeroed lazily. memory systems
- Aug 15, 2025 First-Touch Costs in Demand-Paged Memory What a program actually pays when it writes to freshly allocated memory, and how page faults, zeroing, and transparent huge pages decide the bill. performance engineering
- Mar 20, 2025 Zero Page Addressing and the Economics of Eight-Bit Instructions Placing the first 256 bytes of memory at the centre of the instruction set traded address range for instruction length, and shaped how eight-bit code was written. computing history