D095 - Loaders that share a codebase count once. The compatibility table records lineage
Status: assumed.
SharpEMU was added to the roster expecting an independent current-generation data point, and it is not one: its loader and craziiEmu's differ by 93 lines in 2906, and craziiEmu's copyright header names SharpEmu first. They fail obSCEne in the same place for the same reason, which reads as corroboration and is not.
The rule: before a result from a new loader is treated as
independent, its loader is diffed against the ones already in the
table. Cheap - one diff -w - and the failure it
prevents is the expensive kind, where a shared bug looks like a property
of the format.
This is the third instance of one shape of error in this project: counting a skip as an opinion (consensus), counting an absence as a disagreement (compat.py), and now counting a copy as a witness. In each case something that carried no information was summed as though it did. Worth naming, because the next one will not look like either.