Question - State the advantages of segmented paging over pure segmentation?
Answer -
In broad terms paging is a memory management technique that allows a physical address space of a process to be non-contiguous.
Segmented paging has a certain set of advantages over pure segmentation such as:
- Segmented paging does not have any source of external fragmentation.
- Since a segment existence is not restricted to a contiguous memory range it can be easily grown and does not have to adjust into a physical memory medium.
- With segmented paging the addition of an offset and a base is simpler as it is only an append operation instead of it being a full addition operation.