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astrangelast Wednesday at 6:49 PM0 repliesview on HN

> They do actually have different ISAs though. On both Apple Silicon and x86, some vector instructions are only available on the performance cores, so some tasks can only run on the performance cores.

No, there's no difference on Apple Silicon. You'll never need to know which kind of core you're running on. (Except of course that some of them are slower.)