[PD-ot] Re: [PD] pd on ps3

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Cyrille.Damez at laposte.net hat gesagt: // Cyrille.Damez at laposte.net wrote:

> What's interesting (for us pd users) in the PS3 is more the 7 SPEs (the cell's 
> coprocessors) than the graphics card, unless you wanted to use GEM. This 
> thing has massive floating point processing power.
> As far as I know, the Yellow Dog-based PS3 Linux distro will ship with gcc for 
> the main CPU and for the SPEs, so porting pd on it would make a lot of sense, 
> but it would be more complicated to do it right than just recompiling the 
> vanilla sources.

At least the standard 2d-graphics seems to be fast enough to run
emulators of old games like MAME etc.:
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=70162

Ciao
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