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Context switching needs to be extremely fast in general ... if it was slow then your CPU could begin to spend more time switching between processes than actually performing meaningful work when several processes are running concurrently. |
Context switching needs to be extremely fast in general ... if it was slow then your CPU could begin to spend more time switching between processes than actually performing meaningful work when several processes are running concurrently. |
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Register access is nearly instantaneous. |
Register access is nearly instantaneous. |
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= Topics 2 = |
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* Semaphores |
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* Mutex |
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* Threads |
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