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by amluto 2193 days ago
A few tens of microseconds, most likely.
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It is interesting how even people in this industry are sometimes orders of magnitude off when thinking about how quickly a modern computer is able to do something. Personally, I think it is because web development has trained people to believe that computers are slow.
Just switching is a few tens of instructions. Tens of microseconds should be more than enough to also build a non-trivial page table.