(dev here) Yes. I've spent quite a bit of time on scheduling. It's more nuanced than what this article says and there are ways to influence it (but sorry, can't share too many details). OrbStack tends to use E cores more than other virtualization-based apps do on Apple Silicon, especially for heavy workloads.

Thank you! This is really interesting, will give OrbStack a test drive.

Since all docker implementations use a VM on Mac, and according to this article VMs only use P-Cores, I have to assume it only uses the P cores.

This article is based on an M1 Max but I think M2 Max behaves differently here since it has more E-cores. Don't quote me though.