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| author | Austin Clements <austin@google.com> | 2025-10-30 12:01:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Gopher Robot <gobot@golang.org> | 2025-10-30 09:16:21 -0700 |
| commit | 33eb0443703c5520d585fe6fbe64c5ff3f99f158 (patch) | |
| tree | de92d07be87983fa2f42667be302d1eb11e85632 | |
| parent | 88275865e9aa07c97e20fa67f69b0468cfa20e88 (diff) | |
| download | go-x-website-33eb0443703c5520d585fe6fbe64c5ff3f99f158.tar.xz | |
_content/blog/greenteagc: explain what a page is
Change-Id: Id889dd577988cddc65124a32b42b7e1bab2fc621
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/website/+/716501
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Auto-Submit: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | _content/blog/greenteagc.md | 5 |
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diff --git a/_content/blog/greenteagc.md b/_content/blog/greenteagc.md index dd3f8d23..4fc22601 100644 --- a/_content/blog/greenteagc.md +++ b/_content/blog/greenteagc.md @@ -274,7 +274,10 @@ which will better highlight differences between the diagrams. <img src="greenteagc/marksweep-015.png" /> <figcaption> You'll also notice that objects are grouped together by these labeled, dotted rounded rectangles. - Each of these represents a page: a contiguous block of memory. + Each of these represents a <i>page</i>, which is a contiguous + block of fixed-size, aligned memory. + In Go, pages are 8 KiB (regardless of the hardware virtual + memory page size). These pages are labeled A, B, C, and D, and I'll refer to them that way. </figcaption> </figure> |