Talk:Buddy memory allocation

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"Compared to the memory allocation techniques (such as paging) that modern operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Linux use, the buddy memory allocation is relatively easy to implement, and does not have the hardware requirement of a memory management unit (MMU)."

The article suggests that Linux doesn't use the buddy system, although all papers and books discussing Linux memory allocation suggest otherwise. For example, a few sources: [1] [2] Even if the author didn't want to imply that buddy algorithm is not used in Linux, in my opinion the sentence has an awkward construction that suggests this.