[Vm-dev] processor emulation

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 03:49:01 UTC 2020


Hi Jecel,

> On Oct 18, 2020, at 7:10 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel at merlintec.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Eliot,
> 
>> This looks much more like Pharo trying to strike out on its own.
> 
> I was talking more about the Unicorn project itself, which borrows code
> from Qemu but as a usable library for just the CPU. I noticed Pharo in
> the list of languages with Unicorn bindings and found the link with an
> example of what it would look like in Smalltalk.
> 
> The issue is that now we have 3 very different solutions for x86, ARM
> and MIPS. So I was wondering if a single solution wouldn't be better?

Well given that two of the solutions work fine and that Boris Shingarov is investigating using the Gem5 simulators, trying to unify has no point.  It’s just work.  But if it excites you, go for it.  I don’t have spare cycles :-)

> 
> -- Jecel


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