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• lightweight adj. Opposite of heavyweight; usually found in combining forms such as `lightweight process'.
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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'....
• Lightweight: lighter than rugged.
• fragile: adj. Syn {brittle}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• beam: [from Star Trek Classic's "Beam me up, Scotty!
  ] vt. To transfer {softcopy} of a file electronically...
• defined as: adj. In the role of, usually in an organization-chart sense.
  Pete is currently defined as bug prioritizer." Compare {logical}....