Quiz submission record for quiz7-1-1 at Sun Aug  1 21:56:36 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
Difference: the processor generates virtual address, while memory is acessed by physical address.

To get a PA from a VA, we use a process called memory mapping (also address translation)

Your Answer for Question 2:
Benefit: eliminate the need to find a contiguous block of memory to allocate a program, simplify protection between the operating system and user programs, increase the efficiency of implementing paging, simple.

Good about bigger chunks: can amortize the high access time.

Good about smaller chunks: can support more powerful methods of protection and sharing in an address space.


Your unique submission ID is quiz7-1-1-cs61c-bc-1091422596-782.