Page Tables

episode

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser not yet transcribed

▲ 0

Transcript

This episode hasn't been transcribed yet Upvotes decide what gets transcribed next — 0 so far. Sign in to upvote

Related

recent transcribed audio

7AM ET 09/29/2026 Newscast 3 min · 29 Sep 2026 · Fox News Hourly Update

Federal boost for Navitas 6 min · 29 Sep 2026 · Wall Street Breakfast

1031: Tokenomics: Why Your Agentic AI Bill Is Exploding (and How to Fix It), with Tyler Cox and Ish Shah 1h 14m · 29 Sep 2026 · Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

1606 - Josh Finally Got his Wife to Hotwife for Him 56 min · 29 Sep 2026 · Strictly Anonymous Confessions

OpenAI Scraps Latest Model on Safety Concerns 2 min · 29 Sep 2026 · WSJ Minute Briefing

The Bobby Williamson trail 34 min · 29 Sep 2026 · Football Ramble

Report any issue

Source

Recorded15 Dec 2025

Publisheranchor.fm ↗

Handlerec:14651597

Show notes

Page tables provide the mapping between virtual memory and physical memory for each process. This means it needs to be as efficient and as fast as possible. I explore the inner workings of page tables in this episode.0:00 Intro2:00 Virtual Memory ⁃ ⁃ 8:00 MMU10:00 Page Tables ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ 11:30 Single Table Byte Addressability ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ 16:00 Single Table Page addressability ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ 19:00 Multi-level Paging (Radix tree) ⁃ ⁃ 31:00 Huge Tables ⁃ ⁃ 33:00 TLB ⁃ ⁃ Summary

Ask this episode

“What did the council decide on item 42?” — answered with the speaker and the moment.

Sign in