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Re: Patent on aligned memcpy
- To: joel at OARcorp dot com
- Subject: Re: Patent on aligned memcpy
- From: Peter Barada <pbarada at wavemark dot com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:37:23 -0400
- CC: mrs at wrs dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
>1. The wording uses the term compiler but the description sounds like an
>interpreter since it is "implemented in a compiler that
>compiles different portions of code at run time into a block of code
>that is then immediately executed". The words "immediately executed" are
>what leads me to this thought.
There is enough prior art out there, even for the "implemented in a
compiler that compiles different portions of code at run time into a
block of code that is then immediately executed". I know of at least
one system that did this for 68010 code back in 1985.
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