Re: Inverse of BUILD

Ron Oliver wrote:
> Unlinking a task typically just saves you one unconditional jump to
> the next task vs. HALTing the task. I've done it in the past, but
> looking back, I'm not really sure it was ever worth it.

This is true on SwiftX implementations that implement a task switch that
way. This is not practical on all processors. Sometimes half a dozen or
  instructions may be executed on a task switch, even if the task ends
up being skipped.

I would agree that on SwiftX implementations which use a jump to switch
to next task that unlinking is not really worth it.

On SwiftX implementations that can't use jump to switch to the next task
there is more to consider.

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