Clearing up a major misconception about PowerPC

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captain carot said:

@curl-6: Espresso likely has no integer SIMD. If there really where no changes made it can do paired single floating point and that's it.

There's a small possibilty for minor improvements, basically because it could fit in for a shrinked triple core PPC with eD-RAM cache. The eD-RAM needs much less space than SRAM cache of the same size.

But as far as we know there's just the basic design IBM made for Gekko 14 years ago with much more cache.

So, no integer SIMD, very limited FP-SIMD, a dated FPU design. I still would be fine with that if Nintendo went for a 1.6GHz quadcore. Still would've been a very small, relatively cool CPU then..

There's a difference between limited SIMD and no SIMD though.