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There’s only so many background / non-interactive tasks you need to run, and especially that you need to run now: with more Es you increase the parallelism but
by masklinn 3y ago
There’s only so many background / non-interactive tasks you need to run, and especially that you need to run now: with more Es you increase the parallelism but if everything goes idle quickly you’ve kinda wasted the silicon.
P cores are more relevant for interactive work which the user is waiting on, hence he sacrifice if efficiency.
- thfuran 3y agoBut there's a far more limited amount of interactive tasks that you need to run right now at the highest speed.
- masklinn 3y agoHowever when there are interactive tasks to run, you need to run them now, because the user is waiting. That is why I find Intel's core mix dubious. By definition background tasks are not generally time-critical, having more cores for them doesn't usually save me time, or money.