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mornelithe on 18 October 2014
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vivster said:
mornelithe said:
vivster said:

As I understand X1 has  separate ressources as well to facilitate multitasking. It's running multiple OS at the same time, so it will have virtualized ressources reserved for that. Background installing is not really a ressource hungry process.

Pretty sure it must be something in the software architecture.

That's entirely plausible, but when I was looking around at specs, I saw specific mention of the PS4's secondary ARM Processor (w/ 2g DDR3) for this purpose, whereas, nothing listed for the XB1.  That doesn't mean it's not there, I just couldn't find any mention of it in the specs I was perusing.

You don't need additional physical hardware. It's all virtualized anyway. An ARM isn't exactly a powerhouse. At least nothing that can't be done by reserving a core until installation is done. It might slightly affect performance but it's only temporary anyway.

Well, something's clearly effecting performance in that regard, so either it's ARM w/ the 2g of RAM, or PlayGo or a combination of both.  Either way, the comparisons are pretty stark.