eglMakeCurrent cost much time

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Hi,

I have one render thread, and in the thread, there are two surfaces and two contexts, one is ES 2.0 and another is ES 1.0, each renders on one surface.

I find when context switch from ES 2.0 to ES 1.0, the time is only 0.02ms; but context switch from ES 1.0 to ES 2.0 costs 4.5ms. I just call glClear in ES 1.0 and swapBuffers, do nothing else at all. (The context switch time only check before wglMakeCurrent and after it, not include render)

After I change ES 1.0 context to ES 2.0 context, the context switch time is ~ 0.02ms!
It seems driver cost much time to switch context from ES 1.0 to ES 2.0.

I am wondering how to reduce the context switch time? Thanks！

The system info is as followings:
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Switching between contexts is inherently slow, it is strongly recommended to avoid doing so whenever possible.