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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hand-hacking</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hand-cruft.html" title="hand cruft"/><link rel="next" href="hand-roll.html" title="hand-roll"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hand-hacking</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hand-cruft.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hand-roll.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hand-hacking"/><dt xmlns="" id="hand-hacking"><b>hand-hacking</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [rare] The practice of translating
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<a href="hot-spot.html"><i class="glossterm">hot spot</i></a>s from an <a href="HLL.html"><i class="glossterm">HLL</i></a> into hand-tuned
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assembler, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating
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better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon. See
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<a href="../T/tune.html"><i class="glossterm">tune</i></a>, <a href="../B/by-hand.html"><i class="glossterm">by hand</i></a>; syn. with
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<span class="grammar">v.</span> <a href="../C/cruft.html"><i class="glossterm">cruft</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [common] More generally, manual construction or patching of data
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sets that would normally be generated by a translation utility and
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interpreted by another program, and aren't really designed to be read or
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modified by humans.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hand-cruft.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hand-roll.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hand cruft </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hand-roll</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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