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CalChris on Aug 24, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Adding 16 kb page size to Android

Normal, large and huge. But default normal pages (which is what Android is changing) are 4K. FWIW, Itanium and Alpha had 8K default pages.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20210510-00/?p=10...

I wonder why Microsoft stayed with 4K for AArch64.

Kwpolska on Aug 24, 2024 | [–]

Microsoft wanted to make x86 compatibility as painless as possible. They adopted an ABI in which registers can be generally mapped 1:1 between the two architectures.

nullindividual on Aug 24, 2024 | [–]

I was confused as to why you were posting incorrect information when this thread already contained the correct information.

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