These are multimedia tests intended to cover the inner loops of various
Audio/Video CODECs (such as MP3).
-**Note:** There's no GUI, UART, or console. To check that the tests ran
+**Note 1:** There's no GUI, UART, or console. To check that the tests ran
succesfully, you need to dump the memory contents and inspect the output.
+**Note 2:** pypowersim is designed for ease-of-understanding of the Power
+ISA and as a tool to check that the Power ISA Specification itself is
+correct. For example, a python class
+[SelectableInt](https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=openpower-isa.git;a=blob;f=src/openpower/decoder/selectable_int.py;hb=HEAD)
+has been created which understands IBM MSB0 ordering. This
+*deliberate and conscious* design choice to focus on readability
+and understanding makes pypowersim extremely slow: an Intel i9 running
+at 4.8 ghz is only capable of 2,500 instructions per second.
# Pypowersim - PowerISA Simulator