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Unicorn is a lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU
emulator framework, based on QEMU.

Unicorn offers some unparalleled features:

- Multi-architecture: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), M68K, MIPS, PowerPC, RISCV,
  SPARC, S390X, TriCore and X86 (16, 32, 64-bit)
- Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API
- Implemented in pure C language, with bindings for Crystal, Clojure,
  Visual Basic, Perl, Rust, Ruby, Python, Java, .NET, Go, Delphi/Free
  Pascal, Haskell, Pharo, and Lua.
- High performance via Just-In-Time compilation
- Support for fine-grained instrumentation at various levels
- Thread-safety by design