What is the optimum time for task switching?

From: Mark Zealey (kernel@itsolve.co.uk)
Date: Sun Apr 30 2000 - 13:10:22 EST


I am interested in what the optimum time on an i386+ is for task
switching. I would imagine that it would be quite long, as it must take
lots of cycles to save all the reg's and load the new ones.

Cheers,

Mark Zealey
mark@itsolve.co.uk

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