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pertymcpert
11 months ago
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Apple introduces M4 chip
The P cores don't get used if they're not needed. You don't need to worry. Most of your every use and background work gets allocated to E cores.
mort96
11 months ago
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But they
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get used. And they take up space on die.
pertymcpert
11 months ago
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When do they get used?
mort96
11 months ago
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I don't know the details of iOS's scheduler or how it decides which tasks should go on which kind of core, but the idea is to put tasks which benefit from high performance on the P-cores, right?
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