:gnarly: /nar'lee/ adj. Both {obscure} and {hairy} (sense
1). "{Yow!} --- the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt
is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage in
surfer slang.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
1). "{Yow!} --- the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt
is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage in
surfer slang.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- gnarly /nar'lee/ adj.
Both obscure and hairy
(sense 1).
Yow! -- the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!... - hand-hacking: n. 1. The practice of translating {hot spot}s from
an {HLL} into hand-tuned assembler, as opposed to trying to
coerce the compiler into generating better code.
Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon.... - hairy: adj. 1. Annoyingly complicated. "{DWIM} is incredibly
hairy.
2. Incomprehensible. "{DWIM} is incredibly hairy.... - udly: adj. Impressive; powerful. Said of code and designs which
exhibit both complexity and a virtuoso flair.
Has connotations similar to {hairy} but is more positive in tone.... - BLT: /B-L-T/, /bl*t/ or (rarely) /belt/ n.,vt. Synonym for
{blit}.
This is the original form of {blit} and the ancestor of {bitblt}.... - hirsute: adj. Occasionally used humorously as a synonym for {hairy}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
- obscure: adj. Used in an exaggeration of its normal meaning, to
imply total incomprehensibility.
The reason for that last crash is obscure." "The `find(1)' command's syntax is obscure!... - bitblt: /bit'blit/ n. [from {BLT}, q.v.] 1. Any of a family
of closely related algorithms for moving and copying rectangles of
bits between main and display memory on a bit-mapped device
or between two areas of either main or display memory (the requirement to do the {Right Thing} in the case of overlapping source and destination rectangles is what makes BitBlt tricky).... - prettyprint: /prit'ee-print/ (alt. `pretty-print') v.
1. To generate `pretty' human-readable output from a {hairy} internal representatio...
