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by silverspoonin 1683 days ago
I'm far from an expert, but to me it seems that a way the little cores can help is by being more efficient (instructions-per-watt). Even in desktop CPUs there are power and thermal limits, and if the littles can take care of lower-priority tasks, the BIG cores can "Turbo Boost" higher and for longer while keeping the whole processor's power and thermal envelopes the same.