Use By Central Processing Unit
In a computer with virtual memory, the term physical address is used mostly to differentiate from a virtual address. In particular, in computers utilizing memory management unit (MMU) to translate memory addresses, the virtual and physical addresses refer to an address before and after MMU translation respectively.
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