Tag: benchmarks

Stage 9: the fixed-point core becomes THE runtime. Getting there took an executor split, a clock experiment, two optimisations executed for measuring zero, a one-byte regression that cost 19 carts, and a PLL trick that ended the night at 59fps on jumper wires.

z8lua lands behind a flag: a bug class from a C port, an allocator caught red-handed on the pad, a licensed PICO-8 pressed into service as an oracle, and a compatibility matrix instead of a feeling.

Before any z8lua code lands, Stage 1 of the runtime migration: a permanent benchmark instrument, input tapes recorded from real play, and the numbers the new VM has to beat.