On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:22:06AM -0500, Jason wrote: > Eric A. Cottrell wrote: > >Hello, > > > >So has anyone got their PS3 yet? A store claims to have the 60 gb model > >a not too far distance away and I am tempted. But I do not want to be > >first on the block to get one. > > I picked up a PS3 a few weeks ago, and just got Gentoo booting on it > (60GB version). Out of the box, I think I set the CFLAGS wrong because > the new stuff I've compiled is 32bit. I've built the cross toolchain > for the SPU's and successfully ran a test program or two. > > Be mindful, as Eric said, compiles are slow. The CellBE drastically > dropped cost and heat by not efficiently handling out-of-order code. I > don't have the link handy, but the IBM CellBE development center has a > PDF intro to coding for the Cell which shows how to handle if;then;else > statements in an efficient manner. Anything not coded that way will be > horribly inefficient. Hence, the long compile times on a dual core, > 3.2GHz processor. :(
Regarding slow compilation, without measuring, I'd guess: (1) not enough memory for compiler footprint (2) slow drive Also, it's not really a dual-core machine. More like hyper-threaded. Eric _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
