Someone asks you, "If a device has plenty of physical memory, why do we even need virtual memory?" How would you answer?
Virtual memory exists to give each process an isolated, protected address space, enable lazy loading and shared library mapping, and provide contiguous addresses, none of which is about capacity, so you need it however large physical memory gets.
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