6502 code

Sean Conner spc at conman.org
Tue Dec 13 02:56:49 CST 2016


It was thus said that the Great drlegendre . once stated:
> @Sean
> 
> I was wondering the same, but perhaps he needs physical hardware for some
> specific purposes, like timing and so forth?

  The 6502 (as well as many of the other 8-bit CPUs of that era) are
deterministic to the point where published cycles counts for instructions
are an accurate measure of speed.  All you need is a cycle count to know how
fast a sequence of code is running.

  -spc



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