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Performance

Performance of Boost.Context was measured on the platforms shown in the following table. Performance measurements were taken using rdtsc and boost::chrono::high_resolution_clock, with overhead corrections, on x86 platforms. In each case, cache warm-up was accounted for, and the one running thread was pinned to a single CPU. The code was compiled using the build options, 'variant = release cxxflags = -DBOOST_DISABLE_ASSERTS'.

Table 1.1. Performance of context switch

Platform

ucontext_t

fcontext_t

windows fibers

i386 [a]

708 ns / 754 cycles

37 ns / 37 cycles

ns / cycles

x86_64 [b]

547 ns / 1433 cycles

8 ns / 23 cycles

ns / cycles

[a] AMD Athlon 64 DualCore 4400+

[b] Intel Core2 Q6700



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