• In the C programming language, Duff's device is a way of manually implementing loop unrolling by interleaving two syntactic constructs of C: the do-while...
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  • Duff's may refer to: Duff's Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA Duff's device, computer science implementation by Tom Duff Duff's Famous Wings,...
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    won the same award in 1997. While working at Lucasfilm, he created Duff's device, a loop unrolling mechanism in C. On August 22, 2006, the United States...
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  • counterproductive, as the increased code size can cause more cache misses; cf. Duff's device. The goal of loop unwinding is to increase a program's speed by reducing...
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    simpler. It was created by Tom Duff, who is better known for an unusual C programming language construct ("Duff's device"). A port of the original rc to...
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  • instead. An example of a switch statement that relies on fallthrough is Duff's device. Optimizing compilers such as GCC or Clang may compile a switch statement...
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  • thread. Within a protothread, yielding is accomplished by utilizing Duff's device within a thread's function and an external variable used in within the...
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  • Jensen's device is a computer programming technique that exploits call by name. It was devised by Danish computer scientist Jørn Jensen, who worked with...
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    Semiconductor device fabrication is the process used to manufacture semiconductor devices, typically integrated circuits (ICs) such as computer processors...
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    complex numbers and VLA, and minor restrictions on switch statements (no Duff's device). cparser Full Supports C99 features. C++ Builder Only in 64-bit mode...
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