Superpages Reading Question

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  1. Table 2: What is weird about FFTW? What type of access pattern must it be doing?
  2. An implicit but overriding principle of the superpages paper is primum non nocere1 in that they try to never be worse than the base system. Give two examples of choices they made that satisfy this principle and one example of a choice that does not.

  1. "first, to do no harm" (a 17th century paraphrasing of the Hippocratic Oath)↩︎