Improvements are never a bad thing, but this strikes me as a “Oracle fixing a uniquely-Oracle problem” kind of situation.
I’m not an expert in databases, so I can’t say if this is standard practice, but sharing a page table entry across 1000+ processes seems a bit… excessive.
A trillion dollar bubble serving tech oligarchs versus a company in China demonstrating the potential to pop said bubble. Surely Microsoft et al, with their spotless records of prioritizing ethics over profits wouldn’t dare do such a thing? /s