English Dictionary: beaded lizard | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Betitle \Be*ti"tle\, v. t. To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle. [Obs.] --Carlyle. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
bit diddling {bit bashing} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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}] |