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Re:Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the br... by croo on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @06:31AM (#27048258)
Multitasking is more like beeing in two meeting simultaneously and taking notes on both, writing a functional specification for a project while talking to your spouse about the weekly shopping list, talking with your coworker about a problem in a codebase while you work in _another_ codebase, trying to fix a production server while watching for cars on the road your kids are playing...
Re:Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the br... by shoto_io on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @06:42AM (#27048303)
Thanks, that is helpful.

I wonder if it can be defined through System 1 and 2 activities. So doing a System 1 task + System 2 task simultaneously would be ok, but not doing System 1 task + another System 1 task.

Re:Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the br... by croo on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:22AM (#27051059)
Yeah the constant context switching is the real culpurit.