Writing emulators [Was: Re: VCF PNW 2018: Pictures!]

[Al Kossow]

On 2/21/18 11:11 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:

> Putting it another way, one can maintain a cycle counter in an emulator
> whose contents are updated when certain tasks have been accomplished.

Synchronization at start of instruction fetch, DMA complete, and firing of an interrupt
can hide a lot of timing inaccuracies.

Finding idle loops can help with host processor CPU resource consumption.