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From: rogerh@arizona.edu (Roger Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: self-modifying code
Message-ID: <4007@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 88 01:09:06 GMT
References: <486@taux01.UUCP>
Reply-To: rogerh@arizona.edu (Roger Hayes)
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson
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Summary: Blit

Someone (Rob Pike?) used self-modifying code to do bitblits.  The
general case bitblit code did a case analysis to construct the optimal
program for that particular blit, then jumped to the constructed
program.  Worked quite well, as I recall.

			Roger Hayes
			rogerh@arizona.edu