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I am confused about one thing, in multithreaded scenarios, can an application use 8 threads or 4? Also how does the scheduling work, can I pin a task that I kno

I am confused about one thing, in multithreaded scenarios, can an application use 8 threads or 4? Also how does the scheduling work, can I pin a task that I know will be demanding on the firestorm cores?

MBCook 6y ago
Applications can use all 8 cores. There is one benchmark in the article where they somehow turn off the efficiency cores to figure out they add about 30% to the total CPU power in multi-core.
- akritrime 6y ago
  Oh I see it. I missed their SPEC2017 page.