1. (Or "
hand cruft") To Translate a
hot spot of a
program in a
HLL into
assembly language by hand, as
opposed to trying to coerce the
compiler into generating
better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming
uncommon.
See
tune,
bum.
2. More generally, manual construction or patching of data
sets that would normally be generated by a translation utility
and interpreted by another program, and aren't really designed
to be read or modified by humans.