Oh wow, my brain was cooked when I wrote that. The BEAM loads bytecode into memory and then goes through the loaded code to directly thread it. It's not an inh

Oh wow, my brain was cooked when I wrote that. The BEAM loads bytecode into memory and then goes through the loaded code to directly thread it. It's not an inherent consequence of code loading in general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code#Direct_threading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code#Direct_threading