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• crank: [from automotive slang] vt. Verb used to describe the performance of a machine, especially sustained performance.
  This box cranks (or, cranks at) about 6 megaflops, with a burst mode of twice that on vectorized operations....
• moke and mirrors n. Marketing deceptions. The term is mainstream in this general sense.
  Among hackers it's strongly associated with bogus demos and crocked benchmarks (see also MIPS, machoflops)....
• moke and mirrors: n. Marketing deceptions. The term is mainstream in this general sense.
  Among hackers it's strongly associated with bogus demos and crocked {benchmark}s (see also {MIPS}, {machoflops})....
• machoflops /mach'oh-flops/ n. [pun on `megaflops'
  a coinage for `millions of FLoating-point Operations Per Second'] Refers to artificially inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers....
• machoflops: /mach'oh-flops/ [pun on `megaflops', a coinage for `millions of FLoating-point Operations Per Second'] n.
  Refers to artificially inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers....
• hose 1. vt. [common] To make non-functional or greatly degraded in performance.
  That big ray-tracing program really hoses the system....
• hose: 1. vt. To make non-functional or greatly degraded in performance.
  That big ray-tracing program really hoses the system....
• megapenny /meg'*-pen`ee/ n. $10,000 (1 cent * 10^6).
  Used semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer cost and performance figures....
• compress [Unix] vt. When used without a qualifier, generally refers to crunching of a file using a particular C implementation of compression by Joseph M.
  Orost et al. and widely circulated via Usenet; use of crunch itself in this sense is rare among Unix hackers....