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We have been >> discussing it in [1]. The effect of flushing on memory population >> that we see on x86 is 5-7x elongation. We are thinking of making use >> of the no-direct-map memory allocator that Brendan is working on [2]. > > Ah, makes sense. > > Do you plan to merge this before the performance problems are > addressed? I guess this series focuses on safety and functionality > first. Yes, we'd like to merge the functional part first and then optimise it in the further series. >