I wonder if anyone has recently measured the time it takes to do a context switch under Linux on a modern x86-64 processor. Something like the numbers in the ta

I wonder if anyone has recently measured the time it takes to do a context switch under Linux on a modern x86-64 processor. Something like the numbers in the table here: http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-infinite-space-between-words/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-infinite-space-between-word...