How to prevent performance drops affecting my Game Boy emulator when running on M1/M2 Macs?

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  • feboy

    A Gameboy emulator written in Rust as both a learning exercise and a love letter to the console that got me into gaming.

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    A tiny hardware-accelerated pixel frame buffer. 🦀

    However, I recently got a new M2 Macbook Air and started noticing some super weird behavior. While playing Pokemon Silver with an unlocked framerate, I'd notice that the game would slow down to below 60FPS, even on a release build. After printing a little debugging info I found the culprit in the rendering logic which was handled by the MiniFB crate. At first I thought switching to a GPU renderer (such as https://github.com/parasyte/pixels) would help, and it... kinda did?

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    Perf monitoring CLI tool for Apple Silicon

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