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hand-hacking: n. 1. [rare] The practice of translating
hot spots from an HLL 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
tune, by hand; syn. with
v. cruft. 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.
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