<jargon> 1. (Or "hand cruft") To Translate a hot spot of a
program in a HLL into assembly language by hand, as
opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating
better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming
uncommon.
See tune, bum.
2. 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.
[Jargon File]
(1995-02-16)
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