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From: mike@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Mike Haertel)
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Subject: Duff's Device? (Was: Re: i860 overview (long))
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Date: 10 Mar 89 13:53:54 GMT
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In article <12000@haddock.ima.isc.com> suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti) writes:
>The whole "duff's
>device" bcopy & memcpy discussions of a few months ago are at
>least partly based on this idea.

I have heard of "Duff's device" in reference to graphics, etc.  I am
presently trying to write some fast bitblt routines; is Duff's device
relevant to this?  Can someone send me some information on Duff's device?
Please mail, don't post.
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Mike Haertel <mike@stolaf.edu>
In Hell they run VMS.