Caleb James DeLisle on Nostr: If your architecture is still using pages, you can't guarantee contiguous memory ...

If your architecture is still using pages, you can't guarantee contiguous memory allocations larger than a page, so low level languages that depend on arrays acting array-like are out the window.

You could just replace mmap() with get_page() / free_page() and make it the problem of the software to handle this.

Now in theory any language could work under this regime - by implementing a VM with a virtual TLB - the same but slower.

The question is what are the lowest level languages that would fit comfortably into this ABI ?