@neauoire I worked on dynamic binary translator projects (like an off-road JIT).

One translated PPC to x86-64 code on the fly, in chunks of 5-30 instructions, writing and optimizing new machine code on the fly and patching together the completed chunks just in time to execute them.

One very confusing week I was translating a music synthesis app but it kept crashing; I came to realize that the audio app itself used self modifying code to efficiently generate the notes.

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