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+use std::time::Instant;
+
+use crate::register::{self, Registers};
+
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Clone)]
+pub struct Processor {
+    num_cycles: u64,
+    registers: Registers,
+}
+
+// these are indexed with the instruction numbers in this manual
+// http://marc.rawer.de/Gameboy/Docs/GBCPUman.pdf
+pub enum Instruction {
+    // 3.3.1.1
+    LDnnn {
+        value: u8,
+        register: register::Single,
+    },
+}
+
+struct RunnableInstruction {
+    instruction: Instruction,
+    cycles: u8,
+}
+
+impl RunnableInstruction {
+    /// `from_data` will produce an instruction from the given data and return the data after
+    /// processing that operation.
+    pub fn from_data(data: &[u8]) -> (Self, &[u8]) {
+        // TODO: Maybe we should return an err? I'm somewhat of the mind maybe we should
+        // panic with bad data because what really can we do?
+        let opcode = data[0];
+        match opcode {
+            0x06 => Self::make_ldnn_data(register::Single::B, data),
+            0x0E => Self::make_ldnn_data(register::Single::C, data),
+            0x16 => Self::make_ldnn_data(register::Single::D, data),
+            0x1E => Self::make_ldnn_data(register::Single::E, data),
+            0x26 => Self::make_ldnn_data(register::Single::H, data),
+            0x2E => Self::make_ldnn_data(register::Single::L, data),
+            _ => panic!("invalid opcode {opcode:0x}"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn make_ldnn_data(register: register::Single, data: &[u8]) -> (RunnableInstruction, &[u8]) {
+        (
+            RunnableInstruction {
+                instruction: Instruction::LDnnn {
+                    register,
+                    value: data[1],
+                },
+                cycles: 8,
+            },
+            &data[2..],
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+impl Processor {
+    fn run(&mut self, instruction: &RunnableInstruction) {
+        match instruction.instruction {
+            Instruction::LDnnn { value, register } => {
+                self.registers.set_single_register(register, value);
+            }
+        }
+
+        self.num_cycles += u64::from(instruction.cycles);
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use test_case::test_case;
+
+    #[test_case(0x06, register::Single::B)]
+    #[test_case(0x0E, register::Single::C)]
+    #[test_case(0x16, register::Single::D)]
+    #[test_case(0x1E, register::Single::E)]
+    #[test_case(0x26, register::Single::H)]
+    #[test_case(0x2E, register::Single::L)]
+    fn test_load_immediate(ld_opcode: u8, expected_register: register::Single) {
+        let mut processor = Processor::default();
+        let data = [ld_opcode, 0x23, 0x00, 0x01];
+        let (ins, extra_data) = RunnableInstruction::from_data(&data);
+
+        // assert our extra data after the instruction is returned
+        // this data is just garbage; no idea if it's a valid instruction
+        assert_eq!(extra_data, &[0x00, 0x01]);
+
+        processor.run(&ins);
+        assert_eq!(
+            0x23,
+            processor.registers.get_single_register(expected_register)
+        );
+    }
+}