| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bit twiddling | Computing | 1: An exercise in tuning in which incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little noticeable improvement, often with the result that the code becomes incomprehensible. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| 2: Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterized by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavors of graphics programming, and assembler/compiler code generation. Source: European Union. (references) | |||
| 3: An aimless small modification to a program, especially for some pointless goal. Source: European Union. (references) | |||
| Bit twiddling | Computing | Bit twiddling 1. (pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see tune) in which incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little noticeable improvement, often with the result that the code becomes incomprehensible. 2. Aimless small modification to a program, especially for some pointless goal. 3.bit bashing, especially used for the act of frobbing the device control register of a peripheral in an attempt to get it back to a known state. [Jargon File]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
| Bit twiddling | Computing | Bit twiddling n. [very common] 1. (pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see tune) in which incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little noticeable improvement, often with the result that the code becomes incomprehensible. 2. Aimless small modification to a program, esp.for some pointless goal. 3. Approx.syn.for bit bashing; esp.used for the act of frobbing the device control register of a peripheral in an attempt to get it back to a known state. Source: Jargon File.. | |
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