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As you might know, you can use macros (like VM, MUTATE…) to protect more the sensitive code in your application. Those macros are executed much slower than the real code (but they are highly recommended to put much protection in your application). So, you have to make sure that you don’t put those macros in critical code in your application (that is executed many times per second). A good place to put those macros is in code that checks for serial, passwords or other routines that are not executed constantly.