Imagine what it would be like when (and if) they start adding some of the spe's into the mix. I have found that scalar code runs significantly faster on an spe (providing it fits into the 256k LS) than on the ppe - a factor of 1.5 or so. A fairly CPU intensive raytracing program (single precision floating point) that I wrote is equivalent to a 1.7 GHz G4 on an spe and a 1.2 GHz G4 on the ppe (same level of optimization). I believe there is a German developer who has written a flash player which uses several spe's and works very well. Let's hope that more amateur developers start writing accelerated apps for the ps3 - perhaps with the European launch things will pick up a bit.
-wn On Mar 16, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Brian Wood wrote: > I picked up a PS3 last week, I'm very impressed. > > In case anyone's interested, mplayer 1.0rc1-4.1.1 compiled just fine, > and plays 1920x1080 video using the x11 driver with no problems. No > dropped frames and very smooth. > > I had doubted this would work, as the GPU is only supported as a > frame buffer, but it appears the little thing is just plain fast > enough to "brute force" an MPEG-4 v2 file out the HDMI port. > > Top showed both main CPUs running at about 40%-50% load during > playback, so there's some headroom left. I was playing the file via > an NFS mount, stock NFS installation. mplayer was compiled with the > stock gcc, no special tweaks. > > Just thought some folks might be interested, as there was some > discussion a while back about what the frame buffer could do. > > I think this has potential as a nice little MythTV frontend. > > A Blu-Ray player and a nice little computer for $500, what more could > you ask for? > > Much thanks to all the folks at Terrasoft for making this possible. > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
