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Article #1302Re: Atari Transputers ? (Really: st
From: aglew
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1987 05:21
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1987 05:21
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>Yes, the transputer has a low context-switch time, but if you are really >switching that often that 4 microseconds makes a difference, you >probably aren't getting much work done, anyway. Note that most UNIX >machines perform roughly 60 - 100 context switches per second, so that >register-save time is in the noise. > > -- Tim Olson > Advanced Micro Devices > (tim@amdcad.amd.com) 4 microseconds might make a difference to you, even if you aren't context switching that often - but if you have certain events that you want to respond to real fast, in real time. For these applications, of course, you would try to pre-load and lock down the registers in the AMD29000.
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