From b8d7e874765a37e01d42b30ea7fbd59cd5416a1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: boundedbuffer Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 12:12:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] improved "How Operating Systems differ" --- README.md | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 62bb65cfc..6dac3fe0a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -302,9 +302,7 @@ There is two key differences between Windows and Linux - Windows fails if you attempt to use more than 2^20 * 4 KB pages in a single mapping (4 GB). This doesn't fail when you map the region, rather as you use it up. It may be this limitation doesn't apply to newer or server based versions. -In the future we may support multiple mappings to avoid this limitation, but there is no immediate plan to do so. - -- Windows allocates memory and disk eagerly. +In the future we may support multiple mappings to avoid this limitation, but there is no immediate plan to do so. Windows allocates memory and disk eagerly. - Linux allocates memory and disk lazily. - MacOSX allocates memory lazily and disk eagerly.