Harvard vs. vonNeuman

[Wai-Sun Chia]

Did the use of your self-modifying code in the past propelled you to the 
future from where you're sending us mail in the present? :-)


Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great ben franchuk once stated:
> 
>>  I have yet to see a good use for self-modifying code. Other than
>>subroutines and interupts placing data into a code segement the only
>>self modifying code I have seen was for the 8088.
> 
> 
>   Back when I took Assembly langauge (8086) at college, I used
> self-modifying code in one of the assignments (the teacher and I didn't get
> along and this was my attempt at getting a "rise" out of the teacher).  The
> assignment was to sort a list of numbers in ascending or descending order
> (depending upon user input) so I simply changed the jump instruction after
> the compare in the sort routine.  It saved either two copies of the routine
> (differing in only a single instruction), a complicated logical nest in the
> middle of a sort routine, or using a callback routine.
> 
>   As far as I can recall, that was the *only* time I've ever done
> self-modifying code.
> 
>   -spc (And it seemed like a good reason at the time ... )
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