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heavyweight
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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adj. [common] High-overhead; baroque ; code-intensive; featureful, but
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costly. Esp. used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort
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of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation
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has been pushed at the expense of mundane considerations such as speed,
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memory utilization, and startup time. EMACS is a heavyweight editor; X is an
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extremely heavyweight window system. This term isn't pejorative, but one
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hacker's heavyweight is another's elephantine and a third's monstrosity.
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Oppose lightweight. Usage: now borders on techspeak, especially in the
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compound heavyweight process.
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