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Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max

From	Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max
Date	2024-05-30 19:55 +0300
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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> Allocating a zero filled buffer of enormous size with calloc is 
> surprisingly fast. I have a feeling (which I can't prove) that under the 
> hood Linux is allocating one zero filled page to me, and setting up the 
> page tables for the rest of the buffer as unwriteable. It then copies 
> the zero buffer whenever a write fault happens.

This might well be so (a standard COW page mapped initially to a special 
zeroed page), but from what google tells me there are also special 
kernel threads whose task is to zero out unused memory pages so they can 
be given to new processes. This is needed for security, but would also 
speed up calloc().

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Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-05-16 17:28 +0100
  Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-05-16 21:40 +0100
  Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-05-21 19:06 -0700
    Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-05-30 12:32 +0100
      Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-05-30 14:17 +0200
      Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2024-05-30 19:55 +0300
        Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-05-31 10:17 +0200
          Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2024-05-31 20:52 +0300
      Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-05-30 22:17 -0700
        Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-01 21:07 +0100
          Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org> - 2024-06-01 20:43 -0400
          Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-06-02 03:23 -0700
            Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-06-02 19:50 -0700
              Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-18 20:56 +0100
                Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-06-18 17:34 -0700
                Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-30 21:47 +0100
                Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-07-01 23:20 -0700
                Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-02 21:24 +0100
                Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-03 11:25 +0100
                Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-07-15 06:15 -0700
                Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-07-20 07:41 -0700
                OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-25 12:46 +0100
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-08-10 07:07 -0700
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-12 15:32 +0100
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-08-16 07:48 -0700
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-15 17:52 +0100
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-08-16 08:40 -0700
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-08-16 19:35 +0200
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-08-16 19:55 +0200
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-19 21:23 +0100
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-08-20 17:21 +0200
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-08-20 17:24 +0200
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-08-20 17:43 +0200
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-20 17:55 +0100
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-08-20 18:59 +0200
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-08-26 12:08 -0700
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-08-27 06:09 +0200
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-19 21:34 +0100
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> - 2024-08-19 21:08 -0700
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-20 21:14 +0100
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-08-26 09:35 -0700
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-08-26 08:31 -0700
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-08-20 19:20 +0200
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-08-20 19:36 +0200
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-08-20 19:39 +0200
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-08-20 20:13 +0200
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-08-20 20:50 +0000
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-22 17:30 +0100
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-08-22 18:38 +0200
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-22 21:47 +0100
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-22 21:56 +0100
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> - 2024-08-22 17:00 -0700
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-08-26 10:59 -0700
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-08-26 12:47 -0700
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-08-18 19:52 -0700
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-08-10 17:24 -0700
                Re: OT: Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-08-11 00:00 -0700
                Re: Sieve of Erastosthenes optimized to the max Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-07-23 07:34 -0700

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