Patent on aligned memcpy
Peter Barada
pbarada@wavemark.com
Fri Aug 21 08:17:00 GMT 1998
>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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Peter Barada pbarada@wavemark.com
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WaveMark Technologies, Inc. 781-270-0193 (fax)
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what you can do with a flame thrower" --Bruce Ferstein
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