What's the point of an efficiency benchmark that only compares P-cores?
I only meant "real workload" in the sense that when real people are using their computer, the P-cores are doing real work; that's true even for bursty workloads that don't keep the processor 100% busy, so power is being spent by the P-cores and their efficiency matters.
No, that's not how M1/M2 work.
Apps are generally on the P-cores, but daemons are on E-cores, and the daemons are doing essential work like keeping you connected to wifi. And the apps aren't running all the time if you're just browsing or editing text. It's all part of the end goal of having a lot of battery life.
SCNR!