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You want to recompile the entire binary even though you only changed a few lines of code and it's obvious which instructions need to change? How wasteful.

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soon_to_be_sb 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Tell me how much the cost difference between recompiling and hand modifying the binary is...I ll wait.

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jstanley 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Exactly. And in the future the cost difference between re-generating the source and hand-editing the source will likewise tend towards zero.

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soon_to_be_sb 17 hours ago | parent [-]

That is an uncertain future, and the other guy was talking about 2026

Even then it might be risky due to losing undocumented/untested behaviors that has been added to the software.

	▲	noosphr 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I was talking about 1996 when I first started programming. You can tell because I said 1996.