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Comment by CalChris | Hacker News Reader

  iOS has had 16K pages since forever.
  OSX switched to 16K pages in 2020 with the M1.
  Windows is stuck on 4K pages, even for AArch64.
  Linux has various page sizes. Asahi is 16K.

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Windows has 4K, 2M, and 1G page sizes on x86-64.

Normal, large and huge. But default normal pages (which is what Android is changing) are 4K. FWIW, Itanium and Alpha had 8K default pages.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20210510-00/?p=10...

I wonder why Microsoft stayed with 4K for AArch64.

Microsoft wanted to make x86 compatibility as painless as possible. They adopted an ABI in which registers can be generally mapped 1:1 between the two architectures.

I was confused as to why you were posting incorrect information when this thread already contained the correct information.

> and 1G page sizes on x86-64.

I wonder who requested the 1G page size be implemented and what they use it for...

Another thread says virtual machines.

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