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Subject: Re: continuing VM madness
To: mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (Mikulas Patocka)
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 17:42:33 +0000 (GMT)
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> Sadly it is not a bug but a VM misdesign (and people are just making
> different workarounds that more or less work). I believe that this
> solution will break again, as it happened in 2.2.15 and 2.2.16.

2.2.15->16 was the major transition in getting stuff right. 2.2.18 should be
pretty reasonable. With Andrea's additional patches its quite nice. If we
add page aging then in theory it'll be as good as 2.2 but in practice who 
knows

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