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Inside the Windows Vista Kernel, Part 2

Posted by kdawson on from the memory-hungry dept.

BuR4N writes "Mark Russinovich takes a look at the Windows Kernel and the changes made in Vista. In this second part he describes the workings of the features SuperFetch, ReadyBoost, ReadyBoot, and ReadyDrive and how they improve system performance."

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  1. Dynamic Kernel Address Space by StrongAxe · · Score: 1, Troll

    From TFA:
    Windows and the applications that run on it have bumped their heads on the address space limits of 32-bit processors. The Windows kernel is constrained by default to 2GB

    In English, this means two things:
    1) Our developers haven't figured out how to deal with negative signed integers in a 32-bit address space, so we leave it to third-party developers to figure that one out
    2) The Vista kernel alone requires more RAM than all the disk space used by Windows 98 and all its accessories combined