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From: john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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Subject: Re: Win11 explorer bug?
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:41:11 -0800
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On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:29:00 +0000, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

>On 10/12/2024 15:44, john larkin wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:24:58 +0000, Martin Brown
>> <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> I have found Win11 almost as usable as Win7 with none of the troubles
>>> you see. Main advantage for me is that Win11 understands E & P cores.
>> 
>> What's an E&P?
>
>Economy cores (E) are good for general stuff working at human data rates 
>and much lower power whereas Performance cores (P) are good at running 
>flat out but power hungry. Win11 is the first version that properly 
>allocates heavy CPU bound tasks consistently to the right sort of core!

My new monster Win 11 tower, with a gigantic heavy GPU and terabytes
of SSD and 16G ram, only runs LT Spice about twice as fast as my old
laptop. I was disappointed... I was hoping for 10x or so.

Spice is the only thing I do that needs a lot of compute power.