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If you dumped
imediately, then the shock may well be greater...depending on how fast the aircraft was (and therefore you were) going.
Otherwise, why would it? it's all related to the number of air molecules you displace anyway, so I don't see why the dynamics would be any different.
35,000' pah! Col Joe Kittinger (?) jumped from 108,000' or thereabouts. He took a five minute delay and used a drogue to check his speed.