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Difference between Logical and Physical Address Space?

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The concept of a logical address space that is bound to a separate physical address space is central to proper memory management.
Logical address generated by the CPU; also referred to as virtual address.
Physical address address seen by the memory unit.
Logical and physical addresses are the same in compile-time and load-time address-binding schemes; logical (virtual) and physical addresses differ in execution-time address-binding scheme

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