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• heavyweight: adj. High-overhead; {baroque}; code-intensive
  featureful, but costly. Esp. used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory utilization, and startup time....
• lightweight: adj. Opposite of {heavyweight}; usually found in combining forms such as `lightweight process'.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• lightweight adj. Opposite of heavyweight; usually found in combining forms such as `lightweight process'.
• EMACS /ee'maks/ n. [from Editing MACroS] The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system inside it.
  It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab...
• bulletproof adj. Used of an algorithm or implementation considered extremely robu
  lossage-resistant; capable of correctly recovering from any imaginable exception condition -- a rare and valued quality....
• baroque: adj. Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive.
  Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of {elephantine} or {monstrosity} but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself....
• pawn n.,vi. 1. [techspeak] In UNIX parlance, to create a child process from within a process.
  Technically this is a `fork'; the term `spawn' is a bit more general and is used for threads (lightweight processes) as well as traditional heavyweight processes....
• elephantine: adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous {hog}s (owing perhaps to poor design founded on {brute force and ignorance}) and exceedingly {hairy} in source form.
  An elephantine program may be functional and even friendly, but (as in the old joke about being in bed with an elephant) it's tough to have around all the same (and, like a pachyderm, difficult to maintain)....
• baroque adj. [common] Feature-encrusted; complex
  gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp....