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Last Week on My Mac: A Christmas Core Carol

Apple’s first quad-core chip, the A10 launched 5 years ago, had 2 P and 2 E cores, but could only run one type of core at a time. We’ve come a long way since then.

December 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

How to run commands and scripts on Efficiency cores

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Although there doesn’t appear to be any straightforward way to run command tools or scripts only on Efficiency cores, there are ways and means.

September 14, 2021 Macs, Technology

Explainer: macOS scheduled background activities

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Prior to 10.4, Mac OS X used cron, then scheduling became part of the job of launchd. Later Apple added a new subsystem, Duet Activity Scheduler, which continues to evolve.

September 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Hurricane and Icestorm

Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) can bring great economy in power and heat production. So why don’t we make better use of it on M1 Macs?

September 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

M1 Icestorm cores can still perform very well

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What are the penalties in real-world use for running your code on Icestorm cores, using around 10% of the power used by Firestorms?

September 1, 2021 Macs, Technology
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