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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"expose platform-specific `PRIO_DARWIN_*` constants for core type selection on macOS in `os` module.","articleBody":"# Feature or enhancement\r\n\r\nAs described in [this stack overflow answer](https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/443735/26977), the way to select \"efficiency\" vs. \"performance\" cores on Apple Silicon macOS machines is to use `setpriority`.  However, you need to use custom platform-specific constants to do this, specifically, `PRIO_DARWIN_BG`, and either `PRIO_DARWIN_THREAD` or `PRIO_DARWIN_PROCESS`.\r\n\r\n# Pitch\r\n\r\nIt's just a few integer constants and it would expose a pretty important bit of power-efficiency/performance-tuning functionality for Python.\r\n\r\n# Previous discussion\r\n\r\nNo previous discussion anywhere, this seems like a fairly minor addition.  This platform-specific functionality seems consistent with the way these functions are already treated, given that `os.PRIO_*` are already \"Unix, not Emscripten, not WASI\".\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-104606\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/glyph","@type":"Person","name":"glyph"},"datePublished":"2023-04-14T16:52:14.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/103545/cpython/issues/103545"}