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>This is the same question as why you can’t emulate a game by precompiling its code, and this doesn’t work because that information isn’t available until you try to run the game.

I mean technically you can, but it generally requires a bunch of inefficient jump tables, or alternatively a way to fall back to an interpreter or JIT for self modifying code.



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