THthejawline·Oct 4, 2021Submission
Mimic: A gameboy emulator in Rust that you can play from the command line
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Mimic
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Mimic
A Gameboy emulator written in Rust
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A Gameboy emulator written in Rust
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Observed mentions: 2021-09-24 16:14:56 UTC to 2021-10-04 04:00:24 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Sep 24 | 2021-09-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-25 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 25 | 2021-09-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 26 | 2021-09-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 27 | 2021-09-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 28 | 2021-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 29 | 2021-09-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 30 | 2021-09-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 1 | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-10-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2 | 2021-10-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-10-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 3 | 2021-10-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-10-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4 | 2021-10-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI think the core issue here is mainly that a giant match isn't the best way to express opcode tables, and jump tables are just a bit more idiomatic here as in other languages. I've also been working on an emulator for the gameboy in Rust (https://github.com/jawline/Mimic, I wanted to be able to draw gameboy games to the command line) and I think the use of a jump table made it a bunch simpler / easier to refactor (https://github.com/jawline/Mimic/blob/9463b658ebf006b2369d2b...).
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