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The PS5s operating system and even how they package game files had to be developed from the ground up to realize these gains. There’s a good technical talk abou

by wincy 5y ago

The PS5s operating system and even how they package game files had to be developed from the ground up to realize these gains. There’s a good technical talk about it from one of Sony’s engineers. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ph8LyNIT9sg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ph8LyNIT9sg

emkoemko 5y ago
so Sony made their own OS for PS5? they are not using FreeBSD anymore?
- wtallis 5y ago
  They might still be using BSD stuff, but they developed new IO and compression offload functionality that doesn't match any off the shelf capabilities I'm aware of.
  - touisteur 5y ago
    Might be close to spdk + compress accelerators?
  - MonaroVXR 5y ago
    But the load times are still slower, don't have any sources. But that's the general information that in seeing.
Dylan16807 5y ago
You can get most of the gains just by changing how your game is coded, in a way that will perform very badly if installed on a hard drive. The extra compression and better DMA are useful but not necessary. And I'm not sure what you mean about packaging. The change there is mostly just undoing optimization for slow drives.