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by Sohcahtoa82 702 days ago
> run multithreaded algorithms that are aware of the different performance and split the work unevenly to compensate.

This is what the Intel Thread Director [0] solves.

For high-intensity workloads, it will prioritize assigning them to P-cores.

[0] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

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Then you no longer have 14 cores in this example, but only len(P) cores. Also most code written in the wild isn’t going to use an architecture-specific library for this.