[ydl-gen] No video hardware acceleration on PS3

[Brian Wood]

On Nov 17, 2006, at 9:01 AM, Warren Nagourney wrote:

> I have found it interesting that Apple has taken to using SPEC
> numbers to rate its new machines as opposed to their former approach
> of using some "real world" applications such as Photoshop. It is no
> secret that Intel has mastered the art of getting high SPEC numbers
> (some say that they have designed their compilers and even their
> hardware around this benchmark, but that is being a little
> paranoid...) Formerly, when Apple made PPC machines, they principally
> used Photoshop scores and even ran "races" between their computers
> and PCs during their yearly  "dog and pony" shows. The Macs did much
> better than Intel-based computer because of VMX (Altivec). Well, the
> Cell can be thought of as Altivec on steroids. I wonder how well it
> would run a program like Photoshop? Pretty well, I think.


Should run it quite well, though the re-draw time would suffer from  
the lack of fast video.

BTW - The Local Circuitous City had a grand total of 6 units today,  
and sold them in about 5 seconds. They are "hoping" to get 3 more  
"before Christmas".

So it will be a while before many of us will be playing with them :-(