contiguousness

Breaking contiguousness might require a premium, but only proportional to the economic value from contiguous usage.

There is some contiguousness but they are mostly spread all over the city.

I'm afraid the only way there can be a faster file copying tool is by sacrificing contiguousness and increasing fragmentation.

Breaking contiguousness of all spectrum would require a premium proportional to the marginal additional usage value, which for all spectrum is pretty much nil.

It's more complicated than just aiming at contiguousness itself.

I do find the focus on compactness and contiguousness kind of strange.

And such a global equation of course can result in global failure if just one subsystem miscalculates its required reserved amount, or the calculations improperly account for worst-case non-contiguousness or interleaved different-size-linked-list-alloc-requests or whatever.

> I do find the focus on compactness and contiguousness kind of strange.

Or get a very good approximation to that contiguousness, basically (O(1) "pages" per level).