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It depends which key combination or trackpad gesture is used to trigger the desktop switch, because they use different animation curvdes. It looks like they have different application focus or redraw behaviour too.

- Control-Left/Right takes about 1 second.

- Four-finger swipe left/right takes about 1 second.

- Alt-Tab to an app on another desktop takes about 0.25 seconds.

I'm using Sonoma 14.8.3, but from the comments it sounds like the timing distinction is similar on other versions.