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==Implementations== This code adds a significant amount of complexity to the virtual memory allocation subsystem, but the result is well worth the effort.<ref name="freebsd.org">{{cite web | url = http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/page-coloring-optimizations.html | title = Page Coloring | accessdate = 2007-01-13 | author = Matthew Dillon | authorlink = Matt Dillon (computer scientist) | work = Design elements of the FreeBSD VM system | publisher = FreeBSD Foundation }}</ref> Page coloring makes virtual memory as deterministic as physical memory with regard to cache performance. Page coloring is employed in [[operating system]]s such as [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]],<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/whats_new.jsp | title = Solaris Operating System What's New | accessdate = 2007-01-13 | work = Solaris marketing material | publisher = Sun Microsystems, Inc. }}</ref> [[FreeBSD]],<ref name="freebsd.org"/> [[NetBSD]],<ref name="netbsd.org"> {{cite web | url = http://www.netbsd.org/~matt/bsdcan2012.pdf | title = Improving NetBSD/mips | accessdate = 2012-09-24 | author = Matt Thomas | authorlink = Matt Thomas (computer scientist) | work = Managing Page Colors | publisher = The NetBSD Foundation }}</ref> and [[Windows NT]].<ref name="stanford.edu">{{cite web | url = http://suif.stanford.edu/papers/asplos96.ps | title = Compiler Directed Page-Coloring for Multiprocessors | accessdate = 2009-10-06 |author1=Edouard Bugnion |author2=Jennifer M. Anderson |author3=Todd C. Mowry* |author4=Mendel Rosenblum |author5=Monica S. Lam | publisher = Stanford University }}</ref>
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