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Leverage transparent huge pages on Linux

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Transparently leveraging huge pages on Linux -- which allow memory page table entries to cover larger ranges of contiguous physical memory -- has become much easier with the recent introduction of Version 1 of the libhugetlbfs library on SourceForge. Learn more about the libhugetlbfs libraries and how to use them with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).

Transparently leveraging huge pages on Linux -- which allow memory page table entries to cover larger ranges of contiguous physical memory -- has become much easier with the recent introduction of Version 1 of the libhugetlbfs library on SourceForge. Learn more about the libhugetlbfs libraries and how to use them with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).

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