I’m writing an emulator in OCaml. To emulate the CPU registers, I’ve defined a register file struct: type registers = { af : u16 ref; bc : u16 ref; de : u16 ref; hl : u16 ref; sp : u16 ref; pc : u16 ref; } According to my profiler, register reads and writes are some of the most frequen…

Is a mutable project structure inherently slower?

dbuenzli August 10, 2023, 4:19pm 9

Btw. there are a few gameboy emulators written in OCaml you may want to check out what they do:

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