On 08/01/12 21:10, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On 8 January 2012 21:09, David Kolf <kolf@gmx.de> wrote: [...] >> Somebody already wrote a PC emulator in JavaScript. ;-) >> <http://bellard.org/jslinux/> > > And with something like Javascript's typed arrays extension for Lua > you could do it in Lua. I should point out that most of the magic in Fabrice Bellard's emulator is that it's *not* emulating x86 code; it's dynamically recompiling it into Javascript, and then running the Javascript directly. (It builds on a lot of the same logic as qemu.) The same trick would work just as well in Lua, and LuaJIT's ffi even gives the fast byte arrays to make it all efficient. The massive amounts of work to actually make it all happen is left as an exercise for the reader... -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── │ │ "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by │ stupidity." --- Nick Diamos (Hanlon's Razor)
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