From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 22:14:45 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] Harvard and Von Neumann Architectures and Unix
Message-ID: <201711250314.vAP3Ej0S023901@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

> The thing is that self-modifying code is pretty much an artifact of the dawn
> of computers, [...]
>
> It's just a Bad Idea.

Surely JIT compiling must count as self-modifying code.

Optimal code for bitblt (raster block transfers) in the Blit