In this video I explain why PS3 emulation is so fast, and I definitely don't spend half of the video gushing over x86 instructions.0:00 - Intro2:05 - SPU int...
The PowerPC folks are a special breed of dork. One time… they renamed a bunch of instructions. There were some very plausible motives given for changing how mnemonics worked. Mentioning flag names was boilerplate, abbreviating “ex-” words as X was too American, that sort of thing. So officially, there’s no particular reason the Enforce In-order Execution of Input / Output command is EIEIO.
The PowerPC folks are a special breed of dork. One time… they renamed a bunch of instructions. There were some very plausible motives given for changing how mnemonics worked. Mentioning flag names was boilerplate, abbreviating “ex-” words as X was too American, that sort of thing. So officially, there’s no particular reason the Enforce In-order Execution of Input / Output command is EIEIO.