Subject: Re: success in building the world!
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/08/1999 11:07:35
>
> Yes, but you get more context switches instead.
> I don't know which is faster on his VAX...
>
A context switch is one of the things that is quite fast on a VAX.
Actually, the switch is only 4 instructions :-)
I've read a paper once that had checked how different architectures worked
in multiprogrammed environments, and they showed for example that a
MicroVAX II (which is quite slow) was almost twice as fast as a
SparcStation 2 (which is much faster) in making context switches :-)
-- Ragge