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hand-hacking
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n. 1. [rare] The practice of translating hot spot s from an HLL into
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hand-tuned assembler, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into
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generating better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming
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uncommon. See tune , by hand ; syn. with v. cruft. 2. [common] More
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generally, manual construction or patching of data sets that would normally
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be generated by a translation utility and interpreted by another program,
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and aren't really designed to be read or modified by humans.
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