On: Intel’s Thread Director: Assisting the OS to make task placement decisions

[Neil44]

One thing that springs to mind is, as fas as I know it's not too difficult to manually assign tasks to cores on linux in a way that makes sense to the workload. But I'm not sure if you can do that at all on Windows.

[emerged → Neil44]

You can lock any thread or any process to any number of specific cores on both platforms.

[spockz → Neil44]

You can do it at the process level using the task manager. I'm not sure you can do it at thread level (programmatically) or even lower level.