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I think working on the PS3 is slowly destroying my higher brain functions. All I can think of at the moment are cycle counts, cache misses, memory latency, compiler intrinsics and synchronization issues. It’s becoming harder and harder to communicate with humans, let alone formulate a proper blog post. On one hand I welcome this fallback into nerd-dom, reminds me of the time when I learned programming by hacking hex-code into the 256 bytes of RAM of the LC-80. On the other hand it’s incredibly frustrating because everything takes so fucking long. Working for 3 days on a small problem which doesn’t even exist on other platforms isn’t fun. But ultimately the PS3 port will be incredibly good for Nebula3 because it forces me to think very hard about the data layout and data flows in the engine, and the PS3-port is now laying the foundation to scale beyond 2..3 cores on all future platforms.