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Re:Meltdown and Spectre by pjc50 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @11:38AM (#16071667)
But much harder to program and not effective for speeding up quite a lot of software.
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Re:Meltdown and Spectre by bboozzoo on Thursday January 04, 2018 @11:51AM (#16071803)
Isn't that exactly what made PS3 hard to develop for?
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Re:Meltdown and Spectre by scott_karana on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:08PM (#16074968)
Yep. It bad to develop for, and left lots on the table compared to its contemporary Xbox 360, despite "theoretically" better specs. 1

The Cell processor was never used in any other consoles, and the IBM Roadrunner supercomputer using them ended up being replaced by Cray+AMD hardware.

1 https://kotaku.com/5885358/why-skyrim-didnt-play-nice-with-t...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner

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