Context Switching is Wasting Your Time

A life lesson from operating systems

Shivani Gandhi
Midform
Published in
4 min readSep 11, 2023

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For my technical audience, you might know of context switching as the mechanism in OS that allows multiple processes to use a single CPU. Context switching stores the status of the ongoing process so that the process can be reloaded from the same point from where it was stopped.

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Shivani Gandhi
Midform

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