Re: Emulating 65C02 in ARM

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

Cameron Kaiser (ckaiser@floodgap.com) writes:
> "I Do It Wrong" <i_do_it_wrong@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
>>This ( http://www.heyrick.co.uk/assembler/riscvcisc.html ) site mentions 
>>some figures for a C64 (6510) emulator:
> 
> The problem with using the C64 as a benchmark is that those emulators
> include the overhead of the 64's custom chips, not just the 6510. The
> VIC-II requires a fair bit of horsepower itself to emulate, so these
> numbers don't really give a fair shake to the speeds you'd expect from
> pure CPU emulation.
> 
That's an interesting point.  In effect the things done to make
things faster back then make it slower now when done in emulation.

    Michael