crumas2 on 04 June 2008
| alephnull said: @GodofWine I do cell development. I think people's main issue is that unlike "normal" (ie what x86 ppl are used to) parallel programming there is no cache-coherency between SPEs. This is just going to have to be something programmers are going to have to learn (re-learn from the old super-mini days) how to develop for it as it just isn't feasible to maintain coherency as you scale the number of cores up. In the short term though, 3rd parties will get better as the main commercial engine developers get better at programming for cell. 1st Party products will always be superior though as you almost always lose something in abstraction (no matter what the Java/.Net people tell you). |
Alephnull, I believe you hit that nail squarely on the head.
