One setjmp call was eating 81% of Geolith's emulator frame time
I'm the developer of NeoBox (https://neo-box.app). It's a Neo Geo emulator frontend for Mac + iPhone + iPad as one universal app. I'm using Rupert Carmichael's amazing Geolith library https://gitlab.com/jgemu/geolith for the actual emulation. I then have a Metal-backed rendering pipeline. Recent versions where I was porting NeoBox for iPhone and testing on my iPhone 15 Pro, I noticed it getting hot! Granted I've had the phone for a few years, but I was wondering if there were was something I cou
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Source account: I'm the developer of NeoBox (https://neo-box.app). It's a Neo Geo emulator frontend for Mac + iPhone + iPad as one universal app. I'm using Rupert Carmichael's amazing Geolith library https://gitlab.com/jgemu/geolith for the actual emulation. I then have a Metal-backed rendering pipeline. Recent versions where I was porting NeoBox for iPhone and testing on my iPhone 15 Pro, I noticed it getting hot! Granted I've had the phone for a few years, but I was wondering if there were was something I cou
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