Cool, thanks! I never got to program one but I remember being fascinated by the weird architectures of the PS2 and PS3. It occurs to me that there are some si

Cool, thanks! I never got to program one but I remember being fascinated by the weird architectures of the PS2 and PS3. It occurs to me that there are some similarly weird architectures in mobile right now -- it's not uncommon to see Android flagship phones with 8(!) cores, which is just ludicrous. And there are lots of asymmetric "big.LITTLE" designs with a mix of high-speed and low-power cores. Maybe I'm just reading the wrong blogs, but I've barely seen any discussion on how to optimize code for those crazy Android multicore CPUs, even though it seems like there's potentially a lot of upside. I guess Android is so fragmented and fast-moving that it's a tougher challenge than optimizing for two or three specific games consoles; also Android app prices are low so there probably isn't as much motivation. Also, Apple is miles and miles ahead of everybody else in mobile performance, and they've consistently gone with just 2-3 cores. Their mobile CPUs and GPUs are very smartly designed, really well-balanced.