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Yup, reading from disk will trigger a context switch from the OS, whether it happens explicitly or via a page fault involving virtual memory. (The closest parallel to that at the hardware level would be SMT.) As an aside, another rationale - perhaps a more paradigmatic one - for OOO involves achieving full use of super-scalar execution units on a processor core, when instructions have complex dependencies on one another.



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