Why are you making a PS3 emulator?
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hlide
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04-24-2014, 08:42 PM -
#37
I'm not sure about what a caching interpreter is. But it may be a case of JIT (like the one in Xenia) which allows to reduce the overhead of decoding a contiguous set of instructions (usually called a basic block) by decoding them only once then execute them every time the address is hit by the instruction fetcher. Under certain architectures, you need to use a special instruction to flush icache so you can also discard a basic block from the instruction cache this way.

The simplest way is probably something like that:

Code:
struct insn { void (*interpret_insn)(Context & context); };
...
std::unordered_map< u32, std::vector< insn > > insn_cache;
...
do
{
    auto pc = context.pc;
    auto bb = insn_cache.find(pc);
    if (bb == insn_cache.end())
    {
        insn_cache[pc] = decode_insn(pc);
    }
    else
    {
        for (auto i : bb) i->interpret_insn(context);
    }
}
while (context.no_external_event);
...
}

P.S.: decode_insn returns a vector of decoded insns which represents a basic block (there is no branch-like instruction in the block except for the last instruction)


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RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by mushroom - 04-03-2014, 06:30 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by mushroom - 04-03-2014, 07:42 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by skyeyes83 - 04-03-2014, 08:00 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by androidlover - 04-03-2014, 09:05 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by mushroom - 04-03-2014, 09:24 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by mr.devolver - 04-03-2014, 10:37 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by mushroom - 04-10-2014, 09:46 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by mushroom - 04-11-2014, 03:29 AM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by derpf - 04-11-2014, 04:34 AM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by mushroom - 04-14-2014, 07:18 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by hlide - 04-15-2014, 10:52 AM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by hlide - 04-15-2014, 12:14 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by mushroom - 04-15-2014, 09:52 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by derpf - 04-16-2014, 01:47 AM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by mushroom - 04-16-2014, 05:09 AM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by derpf - 04-16-2014, 07:19 AM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by Hykem - 04-16-2014, 10:04 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by mushroom - 04-19-2014, 09:21 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by derpf - 04-20-2014, 08:25 AM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by androidlover - 04-21-2014, 07:57 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by derpf - 04-22-2014, 04:28 AM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by androidlover - 04-22-2014, 03:47 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by derpf - 04-23-2014, 01:51 AM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by derpf - 04-23-2014, 12:11 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by hlide - 04-23-2014, 04:17 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by androidlover - 04-23-2014, 06:38 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by d875j - 04-24-2014, 07:41 AM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by derpf - 04-24-2014, 08:40 AM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by hlide - 04-24-2014, 08:42 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by derpf - 04-25-2014, 01:18 AM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by mushroom - 04-25-2014, 07:02 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by hlide - 04-25-2014, 07:09 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by mushroom - 04-25-2014, 08:26 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by androidlover - 04-29-2014, 06:40 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by derpf - 04-30-2014, 12:25 AM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by androidlover - 04-30-2014, 05:48 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by Hykem - 05-01-2014, 03:46 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by androidlover - 05-01-2014, 07:58 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by mushroom - 05-01-2014, 08:06 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by Hykem - 05-02-2014, 04:33 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by haagens - 05-02-2014, 09:27 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by androidlover - 05-02-2014, 09:38 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by mushroom - 05-03-2014, 09:49 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by derpf - 05-03-2014, 11:35 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by Hykem - 05-04-2014, 04:32 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by mushroom - 05-05-2014, 07:20 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by haagens - 05-05-2014, 07:32 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by Bigpet - 05-05-2014, 08:24 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by skyeyes83 - 05-05-2014, 09:18 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by hlide - 05-05-2014, 11:10 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by haagens - 05-05-2014, 11:30 PM
RE: Why are you making a PS3 emulator? - by haagens - 05-06-2014, 12:56 AM

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