English Explanatory Dictionary

Duff's device

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A particular optimized implementation of a serial copy that uses an unusual C-language construct for loop unwinding.

Word forms

Duff's device

Etymology

After Tom Duff of Lucasfilm.

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