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mvdnes
rboy
Rust2018–2021
mvdnes / rboy

rboy

A Gameboy Emulator in Rust

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
667GitHub stars
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What it is

A Gameboy Emulator in Rust

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HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-05-23 11:16:34 UTC to 2021-09-24 14:08:48 UTC.

0122018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2021

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

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For those looking to see an example of the match expressions: https://github.com/mvdnes/rboy/blob/9f6b3bc47311ba687326bfff... This process of matching on opcode and doing a marginally different version of the same basic few operations on one of a set of registers is something that is _much_ easier to do when you're able to see all the opcodes and activities in a densely packed set of lines like this. (The start of the opcodes that I linked are not the best example of this, but they get more regular the further down the file you go. See https://github.com/mvdnes/rboy/blob/9f6b3bc47311ba687326bfff... ) Beyond knowing that they exist, I haven't explored macros in rust, but I'm curious if they could be of help here. But using cargo fmt, and spreading each of those lines into 3-10 lines would be awful, and would definitely lead to me making
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