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Why E cores make Apple Silicon fast (eclecticlight.co)

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[–] nous@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

Basically they don't. It is the scheduling pinning background processes to a subset of the cores leaving others free for foreground tasks that is what helps.

The E cores just give a convenient way to split them. They could have done the same thing on intel macs or any other computer that does not have e cores.

The big benefit to e cores is they are more power efficient for tasks that don't need performance.