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grumpy unicorn

hi Carstein,

i accidentally bumped into your post on Unicorn. thanks for your interesting comments, it helps us to understand the concerns of Unicorn users.

some comments on the content:

• on "Superflous const naming": yes, the Python API can be nicer, because so far we just ported C interface over. we even have this exact issue, but nobody stepped up yet: unicorn-engine/unicorn#201

• on "Hooks": as primitive API, we dont want to do more, but let users code their own callbacks. if we move these "per address" callback into the core, we would have to do exactly the same thing there.

  regarding the memory hook, in the core the callback is only called on memory access instructions, but not on every instructions. and yes, this type of hook will be slower for sure.

• on "Misc" and others: again we dont want to provide higher level APIs, but intentionally focus on primitive APIs only. there might be some exceptions, but only for things that benefit a lot of users.

cheers.