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Don’t Trust Activity Monitor on M1 Macs

by @howardnoakley eclecticlight.co published 2022-05-02

Using CPU % or Energy values in Activity Monitor appears to show that running code on E cores is less efficient than on P cores. Don’t believe a word of it.

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