I'm under the impression that Mark is talking about context-switch time
and not about time between switching tasks. Mark, care to clarify?
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On 30 Apr 2000, Johan Kullstam wrote:
> Mark Zealey <kernel@itsolve.co.uk> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> from a cycle efficiency standpoint, optimum would be to stay
> infinitely long with each task and only switch when the task was
> complete or waiting for input. however, user interaction demands
> switching once in a while to preserve the illusion of multi-tasking.
>
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