Writing an emulator in python - implementation questions (for performance)

[Dave Angel]

Santiago Romero wrote:
>>>  I'm trying to port (just for fun), my old Sinclair Spectrum emulator,
>>> A
>> <snip>
>  Do you mean:
>
>     page =ddress / 16384
>     index =ddress MOD 16384
>
>  ?
>
>  Or, better, with:
>
>   page =ddress >> 14
>   index =ddress & 16383
>
>  ?
> <snip>
>   
How about
    page, index = divmod(address, 16384)