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- noun computing The
loading ofmemory pages before they are needed, so as to avoidpage faults .
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pre- + paging
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So demand paging may have lower performance than anticipatory paging algorithms such as prepaging, a method of remembering which pages a process used when it last executed and preloading a few of them, is used to improve performance.
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