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Bought myself an Ampere Altra system

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204 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 30 Jun 25 04:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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amelius ◴[30 Jun 25 09:25 UTC] No.44421186[source]▶
> And the latest one, an Apple MacBook Pro, is nice and fast but has some limits — does not support 64k page size. Which I need for my work.

I wonder where this requirement comes from ...

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ot ◴[30 Jun 25 09:34 UTC] No.44421250[source]▶
I would guess to develop and test software that will ultimately run on a system with 64k page size.
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amelius ◴[30 Jun 25 09:37 UTC] No.44421261[source]▶
Is there a fundamental advantage over other page sizes, other than the convenience of 64k == 2^16?
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1. ch_123 ◴[30 Jun 25 09:50 UTC] No.44421331[source]▶
64k is the largest page size that the ARM architecture supports. The large page size provides advantages for applications which allocate large amounts of memory.