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Even if we are to take that for granted, which I don't think we should with software patents because many companies and developers could invent the same feature
by gaius 9y ago
Even if we are to take that for granted, which I don't think we should with software patents because many companies and developers could invent the same feature in parallel independent of each other
Everyone says this but I don't think it's true. I could probably have come up with Bresenham's algorithm myself, but no way could I have conceived of Duff's Device - that's sheer voodoo.
- mikeash 9y agoI suspect that Duff’s Device is more or less obvious to someone who started out working in assembly language on constrained systems. It’s a direct translation of a simple computed jump.