Showing posts with label Difference between Logical and Physical Address Space. Show all posts
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Monday, 25 March 2019

Difference between Logical and Physical Address Space

Difference between Logical and Physical Address Space?

Answer:

->The concept of a logical address space that is bound to a separate physical address space is
central to proper memory management.
Logical address – generated by the CPU; also referred to as virtual address.
Physical address – address seen by the memory unit.
->Logical and physical addresses are the same in compile-time and load-time address-binding
schemes; logical (virtual) and physical addresses differ in execution-time address-binding
scheme