How you can use the taskpolicy command to confine all the threads of a process to the E cores, as a brake, but there’s no accelerator in macOS.
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How can the two E cores in an M1 Pro or Max equal performance of the four in the original M1? Why does running two threads complete in half the time taken to run one?
Threads, GCD and core allocation in Apple silicon explained. How thread priority is baked into code, and how important it is to performance.
The rules of firmware updating explained, and their consequences for each type of Mac. How to refresh firmware on a T2, and how to downgrade it in an Apple silicon Mac.
P cores are conventional in that they can deliver excellent performance at maximum frequency, but with high power use. E cores may take 4 times as long for a task, but use less than a third of the energy.
An accessible account of how Apple silicon chips use cores of two different types to do their work, and how to get the best from them as a user. The start…
A new version of Mints adds the ability to view versions of installed firmware and recovery systems, valuable particularly for Apple silicon Macs.
Snaps a VM window to its display resolution, offers a fourth display size option, and more errors should be handled without the app crashing itself.
With configurable CPU core count, memory size and display resolution, it can even run at least two VMs at once.
A step-by-step fully illustrated guide to how to use every feature in Recovery Mode on an M1 or M2 Mac running Big Sur, Monterey or Ventura.
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