Originally posted by bridgman
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There are always background tasks running and all GUI apps are multi-threaded to a certain extent. at a bare minimum there is at least one thread for I/O, one thread for the GUI and so on. If there isn't then the GUI will lock up and I/O operations will stall.
Now granted the actual impact of having more cores is minimal in so-called single-threaded benchmarks, but I would think in the case of Alder Lake, if one could lock the I/O threads and the GUI drawing threads to the E-cores, that would give an advantage to the P-cores compared to Intel and AMD processors of equal "performance" cores that lack E-cores.
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