On 6 May 2017 at 11:23, ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> 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.