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ihavesomeexampl • today at 2:04 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

But.. alter data that gets executed (interpeter?), I mean, how does this work even in theory? All data is potentially code?


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intrasight • today at 2:32 PM

All data is potentially code only in a Von Neumann architecture, but not in a Harvard architecture, where there's a separation of data and code with different memory access to each.

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