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by fragsworth 3486 days ago
I'm not sure how this relates to the article?
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orware 3486 days ago
I believe the comment is referring to how the newer ARM CPUs in smartphones utilize small battery efficient cores for basic stuff and can ramp up to more power hungry cores for the heavy stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE
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GavinMcG 3486 days ago
It's offering the smartphone as an analogy for the behavior described in the article.
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