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Thursday, November 17, 2005

Not for the Faint of Heart

Q1Emu is becoming quite a noteworthy piece of software. I wonder if, somewhere, there's a prize for most creative use of code structure that implies a compiler optimization strategy; I could be in the running for it. I've already broken the Visual Studio debugger's ability to match source code lines to instruction addresses; I'm sure the VS coders will be warning everyone "friends don't let friends' compilers do Q1Emu" :P

Incidentally, the Q1 emulation core is now done. It currently weighs in at 1.8 KB, but I may be able to shrink it some. So far all the optimization has been stuff I've done as I've coded. Now that I'm all done, I can go back and look for new things to optimize.

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