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• anoacre /nan'oh-ay`kr/ n. A unit (about 2 mm square) of real estate on a VLSI chip.
  The term gets its giggle value from the fact that VLSI nanoacres have costs in the same range as real acres once one figures in design and fabrication-setup costs....
• eal estate: n. May be used for any critical resource measured in units of area.
  Most frequently used of `chip real estate', the area available for logic on the surface of an integrated circuit (see also {nanoacre})....
• code grinder: n. 1. A {suit}-wearing minion of the sort hired in legion strength by banks and insurance companies to implement payroll packages in RPG and other such unspeakable horrors.
  In its native habitat, the code grinder often removes the suit jacket to reveal an underplumage consisting of button-down shirt (starch optional) and a tie....
• black art: n. A collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by implication) mostly ad-hoc techniques developed for a particular application or systems area (compare {black magic}).
  VLSI design and compiler code optimization were (in their beginnings) considered classic examples of black a...
• oy program: n. 1. One that can be readily comprehended
  hence, a trivial program (compare {noddy}). 2....
• hot spot: n. 1. [primarily used by C/UNIX programmers, but spreading] It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time
  if one were to graph instruction visits versus code addresses, one would typically see a few huge spikes amidst a lot of low-level noise....
• glue: n. Generic term for any interface logic or protocol that connects two component blocks.
  For example, {Blue Glue} is IBM's SNA protocol, and hardware designers call anything used to connect large VLSI's or circuit blocks `glue logic'....
• eal estate n. May be used for any critical resource measured in units of area.
  Most frequently used of `chip real estate', the area available for logic on the surface of an integrated circuit (see also nanoacre)....
• Ross Perot - Acme Acres real estate agent.