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If you are playing a game that suddenly needs to calculate a complex physics explosion, Windows might try to unpark a core to help out. That split-second delay while the core "wakes up" can result in:

In hypervisors, core parking interacts poorly with vCPU allocation. A parked physical core cannot run any vCPU, potentially violating VM guarantees. VMware and Hyper-V mask parking hints from the guest OS.

Not every core can be parked independently. Modern x86 and ARM big.LITTLE architectures provide:

If you are playing a game that suddenly needs to calculate a complex physics explosion, Windows might try to unpark a core to help out. That split-second delay while the core "wakes up" can result in:

In hypervisors, core parking interacts poorly with vCPU allocation. A parked physical core cannot run any vCPU, potentially violating VM guarantees. VMware and Hyper-V mask parking hints from the guest OS.

Not every core can be parked independently. Modern x86 and ARM big.LITTLE architectures provide: