With some evolution, coders adapted to this model and found approaches that both worked well and even abstractions that made working with the SPEs both effectiv

With some evolution, coders adapted to this model and found approaches that both worked well and even abstractions that made working with the SPEs both effective and not as much of a chore. In an interesting turn of events it turns out that if you could architect the SPEs to perform well the same basic approach helped unlock multi core performance on x86-64.