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The “Knocking on Wood” Wikipedia page mentions Roud’s conclusion, and this claim of a 19th century origin has circulated online as the final say on the matter. If you go back to the original, though, Roud’s proposal actually ends on an ambivalent note: “Before this theory [of 19th century origins] can be finally accepted, however, an examination of the history of European forms of this custom would be advisable.”
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The TLB lookup is combinational -- it evaluates in the same half-cycle as the limit check, requiring no additional clock. The common case (TLB hit, no page boundary crossing) adds zero overhead to a memory access. This is why the Segment Descriptor Cache and Page Cache (TLB) together occupy such substantial die area -- they are the fast path that makes protected mode competitive with real mode.