Apps could, yes.
But it’s about 1000x slower to call the OS to allocate a new page, than to just use a pointer to preallocated space.
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But it’s about 1000x slower to call the OS to allocate a new page, than to just use a pointer to preallocated space.
NT is optimized, since day one, to swap.
This is a feature, not a bug.