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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Busy-wait vi. Used of human behavior, conveys that the subject is busy waiting for someone or something, intends to move instantly as soon as it shows up, and thus cannot do anything else at the moment. "Can't talk now, I'm busy-waiting till Bill gets off the phone." Technically, `busy-wait' means to wait on an event by spinning through a tight or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. In applications this is a wasteful technique, and best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor. However, it is often unavoidable in kernel programming. In the Linux world, kernel busy-waits are usually referred to as `spinlocks'. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BUSY-WAIT |
| Specialty definitions using "BUSY-WAIT": tight loop. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "BUSY-WAIT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 繁忙等待. (various references) | ||||
Korean | "쁘 기다리십시". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | usy-waitbay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-s-t-u-w-y" | |
-2 letters: subway. | |
-3 letters: abuts, baits, bawty, bitsy, busty, tabus, tsuba, tubas, waist, waits. | |
-4 letters: abut, abys, aits, bait, bast, bats, bays, bias, bits, bust, busy, buts, buys, isba, sati, stab, staw, stay, stub, suba, suit, swab, swat, sway, tabs, tabu, taus, taws, tuba, tubs, tuis, twas, utas, wabs, wait, wast, wats, ways, wist, wits. | |
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