What's the purpose of the CIL nop opcode?

Question

I\'m going through MSIL and noticing there are a lot of nop instructions in the MSIL.

The MSDN article says they take no action and are used to fill space if the opc

Answer 1

Dude! No-op is awesome! It is an instruction that does nothing but consume time. In the dim dark ages you would use it to do microadjustments in timing in critical loops or more importantly as a filler in self-modifying code.