Re: incredible

From: John Larkin (jjlarkin_at_highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com)
Date: 09/16/04


Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:15:00 -0700

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:21:12 +0200, "Frithiof Andreas Jensen"
<frithiof.jensen@die_spammer_die.ericsson.com> wrote:

>The last part is probably *why* the memory separation features are not
>commonly used - the performance cost of memeory protection will make Games
>suck!

Or maybe because Bill has always liked self-modifying code.

>Embedded systems are big on memory protection and one observes that
>embedded's do not chrash much ;-)

My embedded systems are flat-addressing, non-MMU, unprotected, and
they don't crash. That's because they don't have bugs.

John



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