Why paging is used ?

Answer Posted / rajhans

Paging avoids the considerable problem of fitting the
varying sized memory chunks onto the backing store, from
which most of the previous memory management schemes suffered.

Paging is transperent to the programmer, eliminates external
fragmentation and thus efficient use of main memory.

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