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Thank you for the great links!

It can be really hard to get accurate emulation with a somewhat loosely defined, high level VM such as some of your examples. If it's that small and simple, programmers might accidentally create a dependency on implementation idiosyncrasies. Just see what happens on the retro computing scene when emulators aren't perfectly cycle and hardware accurate - applications, the "demoscene" being a good example of them, that rely on very low-level details of the architecture don't work on certain emulators.

If we want to create a new "forever VM", that VM would have to very strictly define behaviors across I/O, graphics, audio and other areas. I don't want the application to stutter or run too fast on future emulators. I want the emulation to be perfectly cycle accurate.




Exactly, you get it. That's the goal of the project, no undefined behavior, no hazy specifications. :) I've dabbled in this space for quite a while now, I can assure you that dependency on implementation idiosyncrasies get increasingly worse with complex VMs.




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