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No PS3 backwards compatibility(lemmy.ml)

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bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Yes it is hard, and that was their damn fault. I can’t believe they expected developers to have to program which processors take which loads with such granularity. Unbelievably stupid.

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BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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Was the idea to improve performance?

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AProfessional@lemmy.world
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Yes, when used properly it did out perform the competition.

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bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Yes but the modest improvement in output over the 360 was clearly not worth it

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AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org
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It is, and it does provide improved performance at the expense of complexity. Both India and the US Air Force actually used clusters of PS3s to create supercomputers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor) has some more details as well

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