Files
JargonFile/original/html/H/hand-hacking.html
2014-03-27 18:54:56 +00:00

11 lines
2.4 KiB
HTML
Raw Permalink Blame History

This file contains invisible Unicode characters
This file contains invisible Unicode characters that are indistinguishable to humans but may be processed differently by a computer. If you think that this is intentional, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal them.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<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
<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
assembler, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating
better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon. See
<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
<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
sets that would normally be generated by a translation utility and
interpreted by another program, and aren't really designed to be read or
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>