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From: shankar@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Subash Shankar)
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Subject: Re: Context switching on RISC chips
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Date: 2 Jan 90 22:12:56 GMT
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In article <28573@amdcad.AMD.COM> tim@amd.com (Tim Olson) writes:

#  3) Saving/Restoring Live Registers Only (like your #2).  In systems
#     where security (covert channels) is not an issue (as in most
#     real-time embedded control systems), the context-switch time can
#     be reduced by saving only the live local registers found between
#     the current stack pointer and the top of the stack cache.  

Why does security affect things here?
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