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A NES emulator written in Ruby

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 8 comments · first 2016-04-08 · latest 2021-01-01

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  1. …think it runs Optcarrot (the current most prominent Ruby benchmark) otherwise it'd be listed here https://github.com/mame/optcarrot . It doesn't have a lot of compatibility with standard Ruby yet according to…
    comment by chrisseaton · 2021-01-01 · in Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust that compiles to WebAssembly
  2. If you interested in seeing how the 3x3 initiative* has come along, here are the benchmarks so far: https://github.com/mame/optcarrot#readme Personally, I am very excited for this release. * Matz's goal to get Ruby 3 to be 3x faster than…
    comment by eddietejeda · 2020-09-25 · in Ruby 3.0 Preview 1
  3. A lot of focus has been on this benchmark https://github.com/mame/optcarrot/ It has seen huge performance improvements thanks to the mjit but not quite 3x yet.
    comment by sosodev · 2020-08-31 · in Ruby: We have decided to go forward to 3.0 this year
  4. https://github.com/mame/optcarrot Includes some rare, bonus ruby implementations too <3
    comment by kipply · 2020-05-14 · in How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby
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    Optcarrot: A NES Emulator for Ruby Benchmark
    story by pjmlp · 2020-02-28 · 0 comments
  6. …non-trivial benchmark called optcarrot. Ruby 2.4 is 14.3x faster than Ruby 1.8.7 here: https://github.com/mame/optcarrot/blob/master/doc/benchmark.... Rails performance relative to JVM+Scala+Play is tricky to measure but the closest thing…
    comment by jashmatthews · 2018-09-02 · in Rails, still?
  7. …should not be a problem. [1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r15&hw=... [2] https://github.com/mame/optcarrot/blob/master/doc/benchmark....
    comment by jashmatthews · 2018-06-03 · in Ruby 2.6.0-preview2 released with JIT
  8. "optcarrot benchmark https://github.com/mame/optcarrot runs around 9x faster on JRuby+Truffle than it does on MRI" That's blazingly fast! The missing part now is C extension support and they seem confident to be able to deliver this. Color…
    comment by xutopia · 2017-01-14 · in TruffleRuby Status
  9. …The goal of optcarrot is explicitly not to be the "practical"or "the fastest NES emulator". From https://github.com/mame/optcarrot > NOTE: We do not aim to create a practical NES emulator. There have been already many great emulators…
    comment by eregon · 2016-11-29 · in Running Optcarrot, a Ruby NES Emulator, at 150 Fps with the GUI
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    Optcarrot: A NES Emulator for Ruby Benchmark
    story by MrBra · 2016-04-08 · 0 comments