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by jiggawatts 696 days ago
The overhead of context switching is — if anything — higher in relative terms.

I wonder if it would be possible to make an OS that uses an inter-process communication primitive that works like io_uring to mitigate this overhead.

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> The overhead of context switching is — if anything — higher in relative terms.

Why that is the case when we have faster CPU, RAM, and SSDs etc.