Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by imtringued on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:08AM
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Modern CPUs already split code and data between two types of L1 caches. So they are technically both "Von Neumann" and "Harvard" simultaneously.
It's also missing the point because modern buffer overflow exploits no longer write code into the stack, they overwrite the return address on the stack and assemble jumps to the end of functions known as "return oriented programming", but the underlying issue still applies to function pointers on the heap.
It's also missing the point because modern buffer overflow exploits no longer write code into the stack, they overwrite the return address on the stack and assemble jumps to the end of functions known as "return oriented programming", but the underlying issue still applies to function pointers on the heap.