heavyweight adj.
[common] High-overhead; baroque;
code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Esp. used of
communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of
implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of
implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane
considerations such as speed, memory utilization, and startup time.
EMACS is a heavyweight editor; X is an extremely
heavyweight window system. This term isn't pejorative, but one
hacker's heavyweight is another's elephantine and a third's
monstrosity. Oppose `lightweight'. Usage: now borders on
techspeak, especially in the compound `heavyweight process'.
[common] High-overhead; baroque;
code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Esp. used of
communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of
implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of
implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane
considerations such as speed, memory utilization, and startup time.
EMACS is a heavyweight editor; X is an extremely
heavyweight window system. This term isn't pejorative, but one
hacker's heavyweight is another's elephantine and a third's
monstrosity. Oppose `lightweight'. Usage: now borders on
techspeak, especially in the compound `heavyweight process'.
Related:
- heavyweight: adj. High-overhead; {baroque}; code-intensive;
featureful, but costly. Esp. used of communication... - lightweight adj.
Opposite of heavyweight;
usually found in combining forms such as `lightweight... - bulletproof adj.
Used of an algorithm or implementation
considered extremely robust;
lossage-resistant; capable of correctly recovering... - lightweight: adj. Opposite of {heavyweight}; usually found in
combining forms such as `lightweight process'.
The AI Hackers... - EMACS /ee'maks/ n.
[from Editing MACroS] The ne plus
ultra of hacker editors,
a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system... - baroque adj.
[common] Feature-encrusted; complex;
gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp... - spawn n.,vi.
1. [techspeak] In UNIX parlance, to create
a child process from within a process.
Technically this is a `fork'; the term `spawn' is... - baroque: adj. Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on
excessive.
Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has... - moby /moh'bee/
[MIT: seems to have been in use among
model railroad fans years ago.
Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from...
From the same category:
- Trojan horse n.
[coined by MIT-hacker-turned-NSA-spook Dan
Edwards] A malicious,
security-breaking program that is disguised as something... - hash collision n.
[from the techspeak] (var. `hash
clash') When used of people,
signifies a confusion in associative memory or imagination... - rainbow series n.
Any of several series of technical
manuals distinguished by cover color.
The original rainbow series was the NCSC security... - Lintel n.
The emerging Linux/Intel alliance.
This term began to be used in early 1999 after it... - hack value n.
Often adduced as the reason or motivation for
expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal,
the point being that the accomplished goal is a...
