| CommunistHater said: Cell like a GPU likes to have very strictly formatted data thrown at it. Cell cannot do out of order execution; strictly in-order Cell would crawl up and die if it had to multitask in windows |
Writing software for the Cell is very similar to writing software for other CPUs, it requires a bit more clever planning and requires efficiency. The measures needed to write truly efficiently on other CPUs are nearly the same.
Windows and Linux Desktops were not designed efficiently at all, Linux has the excuse that it's free and was for a large part developed by non-commercial hobby engineers at its core. QNX for example is on the outside similar, but on the inside its far more modern and efficient. If only IBM would have picked QNX instead of MSDOS, the most limited and handicapped OS I've ever used and a straight CP/M rip-off down to the source...
In the past OSes were designed to become ever more efficient and optimised, the Wintel monopoly pretty much changed that. Selling ever more inefficient OS revisions pushed people to upgrade and upgrade their hardware, which was very profitable to Microsoft's hardware partners.
