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Re:Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters by Evbn on Monday November 12, 2012 @11:36PM (#4776433)
Context switching costs far less than the time it takes you to press the key to switch between tabs, and is not appreciably more expensive for a process than for a thread.
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Re:Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters by qu4z-2 on Monday November 12, 2012 @11:59PM (#4776502)
Cache validation, on the other hand, can be quite expensive. The context switch itself of course less so.
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