Re: [9fans] gar nix!

[Charles Forsyth]

> (can't one just preemptively map the whole text on first-fault?)

that doesn't make sense on many architectures.
if there isn't a page table system, for instance, but a set of moderate size of 
software-managed tlbs,
perhaps with hardware assistance, that won't work terribly well.
the faults tell you what you're using right now. you need a page size, however,
that's appropriate for your system (including your application set), or
faulting lots of tiny chunks of text that your processor can execute quickly
will give excessive overhead.