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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bit twiddling</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bit-rot.html" title="bit rot"/><link rel="next" href="bit-paired-keyboard.html" title="bit-paired keyboard"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bit twiddling</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bit-rot.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bit-paired-keyboard.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bit-twiddling"/><dt xmlns="" id="bit-twiddling"><b>bit twiddling</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [very common] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. (pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see
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<a href="../T/tune.html"><i class="glossterm">tune</i></a>) in which incredible amounts of time and effort
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go to produce little noticeable improvement, often with the result that the
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code becomes incomprehensible. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Aimless small modification to a program, esp. for some pointless
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goal.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. Approx. syn. for <a href="bit-bashing.html"><i class="glossterm">bit bashing</i></a>; esp. used
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for the act of frobbing the device control register of a peripheral in an
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attempt to get it back to a known state.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bit-rot.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bit-paired-keyboard.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bit rot </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bit-paired keyboard</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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