MikeB on 28 March 2008
@ RocketPig
That's just it: The Cell is not a good general purpose processor. It does some things amazingly well while it's not so great at others. For scientific research where pure number-crunching is the goal, it excels.
The Cell is an excellent general purpose processor, at nearly any kind of code it can be an order of magnitude faster. It does require a different approach to coding than is usually applied to legacy coding tactics. Extensive testing and research already demonstrated this, the Cell is good at facilitatiing just about any type of code, usually multiple times faster.
