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How do you think hot swappable CPUs would work? (burggit.moe)
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Let's just say hypothetically this was possible and that the laws of silicon were not a thing, and that there was market demand for it for some asinine reason. As well as every OS process scheduler was made to optionally work with this. How would this work?

Personally, I'd say there would be a smol lower clocked CPU on the board that would kick on and take over if you were to pull the big boy CPU out and swap it while the system is running.

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[–] Burger@burggit.moe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Very interesting take for what I'd consider to be a semi-shitpost. Yeah, more programs are multithreaded compared to years back, but thread safety poses a big challenge still since you don't want functions executing in parallel and one part gets done sooner than the other, causing a plethora of race conditions.

For multi CPU systems, there's NUMA which tries to take advantage of the memory closest to the processor first before going all the way out and fetching the data from a different set of memory all the way across a motherboard. That's why server boards have each set of DIMMs close to each processor. Though this is coming from a hardware layman, so I'm pretty sure I'm not being entirely accurate here. Low level stuff makes my brain hurt sometimes.