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Duff's device
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Etymology
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After Tom Duff of Lucasfilm.
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Duff
's
device
English
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Duff's device
Wikipedia
(
computing
,
programming
)
A particular
optimized
implementation
of a
serial
copy
that uses an unusual
C
-language
construct
for
loop
unwinding
.
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