> But what it sounds like you want is an E-core mad part from Intel. I always thought they should sell a 20-30 core laptop part with only one or two big cores a

> But what it sounds like you want is an E-core mad part from Intel. I always thought they should sell a 20-30 core laptop part with only one or two big cores as a compilation monster. Indeed. I've been looking at the 12th gen laptops we're getting at work, but those were underwhelming. I don't remember which model CPU it was, but it only had 2 P cores (those are basically for "office work", so no one cares about performance). For compilation (Rust) it was in the same ballpark as my 11th gen i7 (so 4 "regular" cores + HT). For basic day-to-day work, they both felt the same. As you say, I'd expect a part with more P cores to be interesting for my use case, which is exactly the same as your sibling's [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=vladvasiliu#35280246 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=vladvasiliu#35280246