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Gnarly /nar'lee/ Adj. Both Obscure And Hairy (sense 1).
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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.
Related:
gnarly: /nar'lee/ adj. Both {obscure} and {hairy} (sense 1).
{Yow!} --- the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!...
It's a gnarly day in the neighborhood...
hairy: adj. 1. Annoyingly complicated. "{DWIM} is incredibly hairy.
2. Incomprehensible. "{DWIM} is incredibly hairy....
hairy adj. 1. Annoyingly complicated. "DWIM is incredibly hairy.
2. Incomprehensible. "DWIM is incredibly hairy....
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....
hand-hacking n. 1. [rare] The practice of translating hot spots 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. See tune, bum, by hand; syn. with v....
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....
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}....
Why are there so many gnarly limbs on my family tree?