Squeak on the ... Xbox 360?

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Sun Jan 28 23:05:11 UTC 2007


2007/1/28, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > On Jan 28, 2007, at 18:43 , tim Rowledge wrote:
> >
> >> Assuming of course that the claims I've read of the Cell having a
> >> 3.2GHz POWER core are correct.
> >
> > Well, *I* read that it's not even remotely comparable to either a POWER
> > or a PowerPC core, it just happens to use the same instruction set. It's
> > stripped to the bare minimum, for example, it does not do out-of-order
> > execution.
>
> IF true, this would suck. Do we know if the xbox has the same limitations?

Wikipedia says yes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon_%28processor%29

Philippe

> Cheers,
>    - Andreas
>
>



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