: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. {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'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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 process'.
The AI Hackers... - lightweight adj.
Opposite of heavyweight;
usually found in combining forms such as `lightweight... - EMACS /ee'maks/ n.
[from Editing MACroS] The ne plus
ultra of hacker editors,
a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system... - bulletproof adj.
Used of an algorithm or implementation
considered extremely robust;
lossage-resistant; capable of correctly recovering... - baroque: adj. Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on
excessive.
Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has... - 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... - elephantine: adj. Used of programs or systems that are both
conspicuous {hog}s (owing perhaps to poor design founded on
{brute force and ignorance}) and exceedingly {hairy} in source
form.
An elephantine program may be functional and even friendly... - baroque adj.
[common] Feature-encrusted; complex;
gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp...
From the same category:
- Wisdom sets bounds even to
knowledge. --... - Ah, my trombone.
Let me show you how it works. --... - SOA - the Society for the
Opposition of... - Put your Nose to the Grindstone!
-
Amalgamated Plastic Surgeons and Toolmakers, Ltd... - Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Mark...
