Comment by mabster

I loved and really miss the cell. It did take quite a bit of work to shuffle things in and out of the SPUs correctly (so yeah, it took much longer to write code and greater care), but it really churned through data.

We had a generic job mechanism with the same restrictions on all platforms. This usually meant if it ran at all on Cell it would run great on PC because the data would generally be cache friendly. But it was tough getting the PowerPC to perform.

I understand why the PS4 was basically a PC after that - because it's easier. But I wish there was still SPUs off the side to take advantage of. Happy to have it off die like GPUs are.