Loop unfolding

[Dominick Samperi]

In article <3010 at wright.mips.COM> earl at mips.COM (Earl Killian) writes:
|>   As I said, unrolling was a very effective way of removing virtually
|>   all the overhead from these loops.  Can anyone suggest other solutions

Sorry for jumping into this discussion rather late, but could someone
please give a brief definition of "loop unrolling."
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