Re: Can context switches be faster?

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Oct 12 2006 - 16:29:37 EST


> ther uniprocessor machines.
> >
>
> That's a load more descriptive :D
>
> 0.890 uS, 0.556uS/cycle, that's barely 2 cycles you know. (Pentium M)
> PPC performs similarly, 1 cycle should be about 1uS.
>
> > Chris

you have your units off; 1 cycle is 1 nS not 1 uS (or 0.556 nS for the
pM)

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