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• lightweight: adj. Opposite of {heavyweight}; usually found in combining forms such as `lightweight process'.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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....
• heavyweight: adj. 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....
• pawn 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 a bit more general and is used for threads (lightweight processes) as well as traditional heavyweight processes....
• Lightweight: lighter than rugged.
• cratch 1. [from `scratchpad'] adj. Describes a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary-use purpose
  one that can be scribbled on without loss. Usually in the combining forms `scratch memory', `scratch register', `scratch disk', `scratch tape', `scratch volume'....
• cratch: 1. [from `scratchpad'] adj. Describes a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary-use purpose
  one that can be {scribble}d on without loss. Usually in the combining forms `scratch memory', `scratch register', `scratch disk', `scratch tape', `scratch volume'....
• hread n. [Usenet, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of `topic thread', a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic.
  To `follow a thread' is to read a series of Usenet postings sharing a common subject or (more correctly) which are connected by Reference headers....
• Take out the word 'Quayle' and insert the word 'Bush' wherever it appears, and that's the crap I took for eight years.
  Wimp. Sycophant. Lap dog. Poop. Lightweight. Boob....