Ask HN: Why do we organise files in pages? It’s a common pattern found everywhere: ELF is paged based, most of dbs’ files, PDF is page based and what not. Why is that? Whats the major point(s?) behind this design? |
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Ask HN: Why do we organise files in pages? It’s a common pattern found everywhere: ELF is paged based, most of dbs’ files, PDF is page based and what not. Why is that? Whats the major point(s?) behind this design? |