footprint n.
1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece
of hardware. 2. [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed
program (often in plural, `footprints'). See also toeprint.
3. RAM footprint: The minimum amount of RAM which an OS or other
program takes; this figure gives one an idea of how much will
be left for other applications. How actively this RAM is used is
another matter entirely. Recent tendencies to featuritis and
software bloat can expand the RAM footprint of an OS to the point
of making it nearly unusable in practice. [This problem is,
thankfully, limited to operating systems so stupid that they don't
do virtual memory - ESR]
1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece
of hardware. 2. [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed
program (often in plural, `footprints'). See also toeprint.
3. RAM footprint: The minimum amount of RAM which an OS or other
program takes; this figure gives one an idea of how much will
be left for other applications. How actively this RAM is used is
another matter entirely. Recent tendencies to featuritis and
software bloat can expand the RAM footprint of an OS to the point
of making it nearly unusable in practice. [This problem is,
thankfully, limited to operating systems so stupid that they don't
do virtual memory - ESR]
Related:
- footprint: n. 1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of
hardware.
2. [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed... - ill-behaved adj.
1. [numerical analysis] Said of an
algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of
accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties.
2. Software that bypasses the defined OS interfaces... - crash
1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often
said of the system (q.v.
sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term... - ill-behaved: adj. 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or
computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated
roundoff error or poor convergence properties.
2. Software that bypasses the defined {OS} interfaces... - patch
1. n. A temporary addition to a piece of code,
usually as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing... - monty /mon'tee/ n.
1. [US Geological Survey] A
program with a ludicrously complex user interface written to
perform extremely trivial tasks.
An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking... - MFTL /M-F-T-L/
[abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language']
1.
adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design... - kluge /klooj/
[from the German `klug', clever; poss.
related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)]... - system n.
1. The supervisor program or OS on a computer.
2. The entire computer system, including input/output...
From the same category:
- winnage /win'*j/ n.
The situation when a lossage is
corrected,
or when something is winning... - phase-wrapping n.
[MIT] Syn. wrap around,
sense 2... - P-mail n.
[rare] Physical mail, as opposed to email.
Synonymous with snail-mail, but much less common... - barfulous /bar'fyoo-l*s/ adj.
(alt. `barfucious',
/bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make... - hackish /hak'ish/ adj.
(also hackishness n.) 1. Said
of something that is or involves a hack.
2. Of or pertaining to hackers or the hacker subculture...
