"Self-modifying code" might be more common today than it was back then, given the popularity of managed languages that also use some type of JIT. Forcing the ou

"Self-modifying code" might be more common today than it was back then, given the popularity of managed languages that also use some type of JIT. Forcing the output of that JIT through another translation step would be really bad for performance. If Transmeta had survived, perhaps they could have added support for different instruction sets to run e.g. Java or .NET "natively".