the overhead for the application is so low its negligible. I find it more convenient to have it as a launcher, saves digging through multiple applications.
I suspect they don't want to move the memory controller to the compute tile, if for no other reason, they want to be able to park the compute tile on a laptop when it is sleeping. I suspect Intel will continue to enhance the way their new tile architected works. It's for that reason why AMD's 3D cache CPUs do so much better for gaming, it helps offset the latency added by putting the memory controller on the I/O die. Intel made it clear long ago that gamers are not who the design chips for, so I wouldn't hold your breath.
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