Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework

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Post by signa11 » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 3:35 PM UTC

Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework
unicorn-engine.org

Re: Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework

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Post by sdegutis » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 4:33 PM UTC

Github link was kinda hard to find: https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn

Re: Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework

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Post by craftyguy » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 4:36 PM UTC

sdegutis wrote: post #2

Github link was kinda hard to find: https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn

Download->git repository (from the link posted here..) wasn't that hard to find.

Re: Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework

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Post by dangpzanco » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 4:42 PM UTC

craftyguy wrote: post #3

sdegutis wrote: post #2

Github link was kinda hard to find: https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn

Download->git repository (from the link posted here..) wasn't that hard to find.

There’s a Github icon in the bottom of the page (together with the email and Twitter accounts)

Re: Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework

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Post by mnafees » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 4:49 PM UTC

This is so cool! Especially for us university students who are taught MIPS in our compilers course, it will be cool to use this to re-create the emulator our University uses to run our MIPS ASM code.

Re: Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework

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Post by Mizza » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 5:04 PM UTC

The Nintendo Switch emulator `yuzu` started out using this, but has been gradually moving to https://github.com/MerryMage/dynarmic instead.

Re: Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework

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Post by monocasa » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 5:10 PM UTC

It's the core of qemu, refactored out to something that's usable by other clients.

For emulators it's great for getttig started and prototyping, but if you care about perf you end up migrating to a more integrated solution. Sort of like how V8 was originally based on llvm, but wrote their own backend.

Re: Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework

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Post by tiles » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 5:24 PM UTC

Mizza wrote: post #6

The Nintendo Switch emulator `yuzu` started out using this, but has been gradually moving to https://github.com/MerryMage/dynarmic instead.

Is there more context on why they're switching / how they gradually move over? I'm very interested.

Re: Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework

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Post by pg_bot » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 5:27 PM UTC

So many projects use the name "unicorn", that I think we should declare a moratorium on its usage. There are plenty of mythological creatures to go around.[0] If you feel the need for your project to be 'corny' may I suggest naming it after the bicorn[1], which has double the horns and is therefore twice as interesting.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures_by...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicorn_and_Chichevache

Re: Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework

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Post by lstodd » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 5:29 PM UTC

pg_bot wrote: post #9

So many projects use the name "unicorn", that I think we should declare a moratorium on its usage. There are plenty of mythological creatures to go around.[0] If you feel the need for your project to be 'corny' may I suggest naming it after the bicorn[1], which has double the horns and is therefore twice as interesting. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures_by... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org…

Why didn't they name it Multicorn?