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Comment by Pannoniae

Self-modifying code is a meme unless you're writing an obfuscator... (but even then you can hook the execution so it's a pretty low-tier anti-reversing effort ngl)

For perf reasons it's the equivalent of shooting your leg off to lose weight. You're flushing the instruction cache and breaking prefetch, leading to a huge stall. Then you do it again. And again. It hasn't been in vogue since the 80s...

parent Pannoniae 1 month ago

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