From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo) Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 20:51:05 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Discuss of style and design of computer programs from a Message-ID: On 6 May 2017 at 11:23, ron minnich wrote (in part): [...] > Lest you think things are better now, Linux uses self modifying code to > optimize certain critical operations, and at one talk I heard the speaker > say that he'd like to put more self modifying code into Linux, "because it's > fun". Oh boy. Fun, indeed! Even self-modifying chips are being touted -- Yikes! N.