GOOD ANSWER GOOD ANSWER!!!!!!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ramon van Handel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:16 AM
Subject: RE: Another plex86 technical thing
> >I don't know about the idea that self-modifying code is
brain-dead.........
> >my dad's first & best custom bootloader/bootstrapper was self modifying
and
> >worked great!!!
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> Read the intel manual... it says not to use self-modifying code. In order
for
> it to work the code cache has to be flushed, and that's slow. We have to
> support self-modifying code of course, but it needen't be fast --- if you
use
> self-modifying code in a performance-critical section in you're program,
that's
> a bug anyway.
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> -- Ramon
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