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I'm wondering if we are eventually going to get hybrid chips that have X86 big cores and ARM "little" efficiency cores. Is it not possible to have an OS that ca
by Melatonic 5y ago
I'm wondering if we are eventually going to get hybrid chips that have X86 big cores and ARM "little" efficiency cores. Is it not possible to have an OS that can run services on both simultaneously?
- wmf 5y agoThis would be nothing but pain. If you want efficiency cores you can use x86 for that.
- smoldesu 5y agoNot really, at least with how it currently works. Most OSes will redirect threads to the different cores based on their resource usage, which is impossible if each core was running a different architecture. No amount of magic will make it work elegantly, I'm afraid.
- nicoburns 5y agoWhat would be the advantage? Apple have shown that ARM cores can compete at the high power end, and Intel's little cores aren't that far off at the low power end.