Today, of course, we'd call this JIT, and shove it in a new page, and think
ourselves clever.
The last time I poked at one of these self-modifying bits they were really
just jitting a blit loop, in place.  Drops register pressure a little bit,
which has always been a bit of an issue in x86 land.

Paul

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:03 AM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote:

> you have to allow for self modifying code. Yes, it's in there.
>
> Great, huh? I love BIOS software.
>
> ron
>
>


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