>> Besides, the page in question would very likely be already present.
> Really? How are you so sure?
It was in a BASIC interpreter. Most of the time string needle in a haystack search is done, haystack is relatively fresh, almost certainly on a page that is present. Might not be in CPU dcache, but that's another matter.
> Really? How are you so sure?
It was in a BASIC interpreter. Most of the time string needle in a haystack search is done, haystack is relatively fresh, almost certainly on a page that is present. Might not be in CPU dcache, but that's another matter.