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bit twiddling
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n. [very common] 1. (pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see tune ) in which
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incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little noticeable
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improvement, often with the result that the code becomes incomprehensible.
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2. Aimless small modification to a program, esp. for some pointless goal. 3.
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Approx. syn. for bit bashing ; esp. used for the act of frobbing the device
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control register of a peripheral in an attempt to get it back to a known
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state.
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