@XanderHenderson @Holo: Lol... someone didn't like my question and so downvoted it and two more of my questions at one go. I suppose they think that the downvote penalty is too small.
Normally, I don't laugh aloud at stuff I read. But this one takes the cake; it made me laugh all the way.
And the thing is that the author really knows what TMs are about, and takes care to implicitly address all the concerns that people like me would think of along the way. Such as the fact that there is a unique execution path.