What is the context switching time ?

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Published on 2010-01-27T17:04:19Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 20:14 UTC
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I have a doubt in context switching. In multi threading, when the context switching occurs, what will be the time between two context switches? Is it fixed time interval?

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