Squilliam on 22 May 2008
MikeB said: Game developers are not going to optimize to that extent Games developers are eventually going to optimise the hell out of the Cell for gaming purposes, because it's a console, the basic specs remain the same for a decade and the userbase will only increase in course of time, making it more interesting to do so. you have to understand there is a hard limit for cell optimization due to ram. Do you have a link with regard to this test? If it was a Linux app it was probably running solely on the PPE (which also runs Linux as the host OS of course). Sorry no I don't and it wasn't run on linux it was a Cell Blade - I.E server part not the PS3 minicell. Are they lacking Ram? More RAM is always better, but each SPE has 256K of RAM which is actually huge, especially compared to the much smaller amounts of L1 cache per core the 360's Xenon processor has to work with. Yes the local store is very important for the high throughput of the SPE. |
Tease.
