Can Facebook Be Cut Down to Size?

Re:Can Facebook Be Cut Down to Size? by vvanders on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:23PM (#17248428)

> with the exception of OpenGL ES 1.0's failure on the PS3.

Got a source on that one? I did plenty of work on the PS3 and never heard anyone complaining about that(the SPUs on the other hand, not many people were ready for massive vectorization).

Also X360 was DirectX based, I knew plenty of PC engines that ported straight over(although with a ton of pain when they realized they couldn't call malloc all over the place).

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Re:Can Facebook Be Cut Down to Size? by pjmlp on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:26PM (#17249672)

The failure was not technical, rather that most developers ignored it and rather used Phyre Engine or libGCM.

As for a source, here is one from Sandstorm developers.

https://sandstormgames.ca/2011/07/22/debug-playstation3/

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At one point, Sony was asking developers whether they would be interested in having PSGL conform to the OpenGL ES 2.0 specs (link here). This has unfortunately never happened however, as developers seem to have mostly preferred to go with libGCM as their main graphics API of choice on PS3. This has meant that the development environment has started becoming more libGCM-centric over the years with PSGL eventually becoming a second-class citizen – in fact, new features like 3D stereo mode is not even possible unless you are using libGCM directly.

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I assume as former PS3 dev you also have access to the GLESTutorial07_Arnaud_Remi_PSGL.pdf done at GDC 2006, otherwise you can get it from https://tinyurl.com/yajn75h2.

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Re:Can Facebook Be Cut Down to Size? by pandaman on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:08PM (#17249496)

I think he meant that few ever used OpenGL on PS3, not that everyone had been complaining about it. I, for one, have not heard of any AAA game using it though some indies might have.

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