Talk:Context Switching: Difference between revisions
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This whole page needs to be changed so that "context switch" is replaced with "task switch"; because there are many kinds of contexts and many kinds of context switches (where task switches is only one of them). It's like having a page with the title "Colour" that only talks about blue that says things like "There are two main colours, light blue and dark blue". |
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removed the link to brendan's post; he compares hardware vs software task switching. the quoted section he ostensibly disproves discusses saving vs not saving registers during a software context switch. |
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Latest revision as of 04:19, 7 August 2018
This whole page needs to be changed so that "context switch" is replaced with "task switch"; because there are many kinds of contexts and many kinds of context switches (where task switches is only one of them). It's like having a page with the title "Colour" that only talks about blue that says things like "There are two main colours, light blue and dark blue".