| kramikosi said: Please link someone in late 2008/09 saying that the cell is hard to work on. All i can remember is people saying it's quite easy to work with. But anyways, nice post. |
With the exception of a few developers that have been quoted saying the Cell processor is not that hard to work on, the vast majority think it is difficult. Even with times, developers may become more accustomed to developing for the Cell processor, but it is still not an easy thing. They have to spend more time planning things out and more time implementing those things. There are a few programmers that just having something "click" in their heads and they are able to take a difficult task and flawlessly optimize it for the Cell processor. However, those developers are rare (No, not Microsoft's rare :D)
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/hirai-were-the-official-industry-leader
In this 1/09 article, a Sony exec claims that the Playstation 3 was designed to be difficult to program for. While I think this is just a way to try and get good PR out of the fact that the Cell processor is difficult todevelop for, I think it's more realiable than random developer saying "xxxxxx" since opnions vary. This is coming from Sony itself.
EDIT: Oops, I pasted the wrong thing earlier. I like to write my responses in a text editor and paste them here.
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