A better analogy for context switching would be stowing everything away you used for making cookies before starting the next task. What you are describing woul

A better analogy for context switching would be stowing everything away you used for making cookies before starting the next task. What you are describing would work as an analogy for hyperthreading / smt though. Not all ressources are used because one needs to wait for things to be ready. So you do something else to keep busy in the same space as the rest of your kitchen.