forwarded message from Christian Tismer (fwd)

[HP Wei]

>From: "Wiger Ulf" <ulf.wiger@REDACTED>
>Regular erlang? Well, on my measly 400 MHz Pentium running
>Windows 98, I measure about 800,000 context switches/s, 

   For the benefits of those (such as myself) 
   who are not familiar with the term 'context switches', 
   can someone educate us on what this number tells us?
   (e.g. 
    The larger this number is, the faster the interpreter runs 
    our codes ? )
  
  thanks,  
  --HP