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Re:Cloning a 6502 Apple-1 in just 930 logic gates by sitkack on Sunday May 10, 2020 @06:32PM (#23136932)
This is cool. I feel like this has implications in metaprogramming, code generation, state machines, interposition, and stuff I haven't thought of.

This changes my understanding of the semantics of basic immensely.

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Re:Cloning a 6502 Apple-1 in just 930 logic gates by ncmncm on Monday May 11, 2020 @03:36PM (#23146057)
Sorry, it is not cool at all.

A system that runs subroutines faster according to how far they are from the start of the program is just badly designed. Robustness against poking in different line numbers is not worth trading off performance.

He should be ashamed.

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