Baekalfen/PyBoy

Benchmark PyBoy against other emulators

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#278 opened on Nov 1, 2023

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Description

We want to compare the performance of PyBoy against other emulators. Especially raw performance of CPU and rendering without showing a GUI (this is often a bottleneck).

Possible list:

  • VisualBoy
  • SameBoy
  • GearBoy
  • Javascript emu?
  • ...

Maybe some from this list: https://daid.github.io/GBEmulatorShootout/

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Research direction
Set up a benchmarking script using PyBoy's built in features and compare CPU and rendering performance with other emulators listed in GBEmulatorShootout. Measure frames per second or execution time for a set of test ROMs.
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python
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performance
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