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| | The Law Of Mutating Binary Images (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Wherever mutating binary images are employed, there will exist components in the image which cannot be generated from source code or other textual representation. |
 | | When major changes were needed to the image, such as for changes to the floating point representation, they customized operations to "serialize all objects to disk" and to restore them. |
 | | Imagine your hard drive as a mutating binary image containing, among other things, your Operating System, and note that every single OS image, if in constant use from installing and uninstalling programs, will eventually decay. |
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