1. A method for execution by a computing core, the method comprises: receiving a request to fetch an instruction from a processing module of the computing core; determining whether the instruction is currently stored in main memory of the computing core; when the instruction is not currently stored in the main memory: determining whether the instruction is stored in a distributed storage network (DSN) memory as one or more sets of encoded instruction slices; when the instruction is stored in the DSN memory as the one or more sets of encoded instruction slices, addressing the DSN memory to retrieve the one or more sets of encoded instruction slices; when at least a threshold number of encoded instruction slices are retrieved for each of the one or more sets of encoded instruction slices, decoding the one or more sets of encoded instruction slices using a dispersed storage error coding function to reconstruct the instruction; and providing the instruction to the processing module.