27 Jan
2010
27 Jan
'10
11:42 a.m.
On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
That increase in complexity hasn't really changed the ease of
programming for decentralized systems much. We've *sorta* moved back
in that direction with GPUs, hardware RAID controllers, IP-offloading
network controllers, etc, but they (especially the latter two) are
usually only found in very high-end systems. Programming them isn't
really any more difficult, and in some ways it's actually quite a bit
easier.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
this is where
early systems excelled, the amiga is the best
example I can think of this.
specialized chips for almost every function, offloaded work from
the cpu.
yet it still wasn't terribly difficult to code for.
This is something of a lie, because things yesterday were WAY
easier. Less code, less memory, less graphics, less everything.
Every aspect of a PS3 game is many orders of magnitude more
complicated and bigger than anything made before!