Advantages
Demand paging, as opposed to loading all pages immediately:
- Only loads pages that are demanded by the executing process.
- As there is more space in main memory, more processes can be loaded reducing context switching time which utilizes large amounts of resources.
- Less loading latency occurs at program startup, as less information is accessed from secondary storage and less information is brought into main memory.
- As main memory is expensive compared to secondary memory, this technique helps significantly reduce the bill of material (BOM) cost in smart phones for example. Symbian OS had this feature.
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