Although Intel’s configurations are unhelpful to say the least: it’s hard to make good scheduling decisions when Intel sells a 2P, 8E, 2LE as a 12 cores to the user.
Normally "let me google it for you" is impolite on this site but I hope not in this case. Here we go:
"Intel Thread Director leverages machine learning to make intelligent decisions about how to utilize the different types of cores in a hybrid processor, leading to better overall performance and power efficiency."
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Disclaimer: I work in gamedev on engine and performance.
Although Intel’s configurations are unhelpful to say the least: it’s hard to make good scheduling decisions when Intel sells a 2P, 8E, 2LE as a 12 cores to the user.