magic_lobster_party

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  • It’s generally considered a fact that Linux, along with many other open-source software projects, are more efficient than their propriety closed-source counterparts

    This is not necessarily true. Linux had trouble with Nvidia Optimus, which is a GPU technology that seamlessly switches between power modes. Well, that is if it works properly, which it didn’t for Linux. I haven’t heard it in a while, so I assume it’s not a problem now anymore.

    But it was a big problem where Linux laptops drained batteries much faster because they were using the GPUs at max capacity at all times.

    What I’m saying is that the efficiency of Linux depends on access to hardware features, and that might depend on the vendors of the drivers.

    Also, like it or not, if there’s one thing I envy about Mac is its power efficiency. They usually last really long on one charge.














  • AFAIK, the documentation isn’t the main problem. I’m pretty sure PS3 is quite well understood.

    The problem is how to translate the code to a typical X86 architecture. PS3’s uses a very different architecture with a big focus on their own special way on doing parallelism. It’s not an easy translation, and it must be done at great speed.

    The work on RPCS3 incredible, but it took them more than a decade of optimizations to get where they are now. Wii U emulation got figured out relatively quickly in comparison, even if it uses similar specs to PS3.