> Is Intel cooked?

IMHO the whole user-visible p-core/e-core thing on desktop CPUs is one of the worst decisions in the history of microprocessors. My gaming machines need to do double-duty as as build boxes, so they're just utterly unusable for me.

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wtallis 4 days ago | parent [-]

Why is the asymmetry a show-stopper for you? It would seem like having lots of E-cores would be advantageous for compiling, and still having some P-cores means you don't lose performance when linking.

	▲	ls612 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Because Windows has a pants on head design choice where processes that aren’t the active window get shunted onto the e cores regardless of whether they are doing lots of work or not. I halfway suspect that this is intended as a market segmentation trick by MS