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

They could be using them to support edit-and-continue while debugging. It provides the debugger with room to work to replace the old code with new without changing offsets, etc.