HappySqurriel said:
Probably I took a couple of courses that were related to low level programming when in university, and have done some work in embedded systems, and I am fully willing to admit that I don't know a lot when it comes to what makes one processor architecture better than others. MikeB frustrates me because he cites benchmarks where the Cell processor outperforms a 6 year old Power4 processor when performing the fast fourier transform and thinks that is (somehow) meaningful, even though he doesn't know what a fourier transform is. Quite a few hackers have been working constantly for months to reverse engineer the Wii to understand it in order to provide information for homebrew development and they don't have much concrete information. They have been able to confirm a few details (like the Broadway processor's bus supports 128bit transfers to the L2 cache, which the PowerPC 750CXe doesn't) but there are more questions than answers when it comes to the Wii. With all of this somehow MikeB (a physical therapist by trade) knows exactly what the Broadway processor is and what it is capable of. Certainly, Nintendo didn't put the R&D into the Broadway processor that was put into the Cell processor, but I think that it is highly likely that Nintendo ensured that their processor was as powerful as it could be given the constraints of price and energy consumption. |
When you become a PS3 fanboy, you are automatically given a PhD in microprocessor design. You should refer to him as Dr. MikeB from now on.
