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From: chuck@dartvax.UUCP (Chuck Simmons)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Self-modifying code
Message-ID: <4254@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 04:20:04 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  6 04:20:04 1986
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Reply-To: chuck@dartvax.UUCP (Chuck Simmons)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Summary: Sounds like a procedure to me batman

> We DO have the formal discipline to use self-modifying code:
> it's called incremental compilation.
> 
> For some specific instance of a general routine with all sorts of
> ifs depending on parameters values, take a general prototype with all
> the ifs in it, compile only the parts you need into a buffer, and then
> execute that buffer.

How does this differ (conceptually) from invoking a subroutine which has 
its own local memory and passing it parameters?

Chuck Simmons     chuck@dartvax