Recently, Jurkiewicz and Mehlhorn observed that the cost of virtual address translation affects the practical runtime behavior of several fundamental algorithms on modern computers.In this talk, we extend their results to two dimensions and investigate the translation cost of some algorithm design paradigms.For this purpose, we analyze closest pair algorithms representing the divide and conquer, plane-sweep and randomized incremental construction paradigms in the VAT-model.Furthermore, we investigate the VAT-complexities of hashing and comparison-based searching.Finally, we verify the theoretical analyses by experimental results.