This sounds a bit like what Mac OS X's CoreImage does for pixel transformations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Ima

This sounds a bit like what Mac OS X's CoreImage does for pixel transformations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Image Instead of applying a series of filters individually, Core Image assembles a dynamic instruction pipeline so that only one calculation needs to be applied to the pixel data to achieve a cumulative effect... Regardless of the number of filters, Core Image assembles the code for this instruction pipeline with a just-in-time compiler