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MOS 6502 CPU Emulator Implemented Entirely in PostgreSQL

pg_6502 is a fully functional MOS 6502 emulator running in pure PostgreSQL - registers, memory, and all 151 opcodes implemented as stored procedures. It passes functional test suites. Could you load a Commodore 64 ROM into it? Probably. Should you? That's not our call. But someone's going to port DOOM into PostgreSQL eventually, and this is how it starts. Has anyone seen SkyNet around?

DoytoQuery: A Different Kind of Mismatch

DoytoQuery's author published a performance comparison against a number of data access frameworks, and it came out well - which isn't surprising, given that its author wrote the framework. They're deservedly proud of their work, and DoytoQuery has some interesting concepts in how it works, and may be worth further investigation, although there's a documentation gap and, as with most data access frameworks, an impedance mismatch.