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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>heavyweight</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="heavy-wizardry.html" title="heavy wizardry"/><link rel="next" href="Hed-Rat.html" title="Hed Rat"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">heavyweight</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="heavy-wizardry.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Hed-Rat.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="heavyweight"/><dt xmlns="" id="heavyweight"><b>heavyweight</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] High-overhead; <a href="../B/baroque.html"><i class="glossterm">baroque</i></a>;
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code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Esp. used of communication
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protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which
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maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the
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expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory utilization, and
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startup time. <a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a> is a heavyweight editor;
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<a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a> is an <span class="emphasis"><em>extremely</em></span> heavyweight
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window system. This term isn't pejorative, but one hacker's heavyweight is
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another's <a href="../E/elephantine.html"><i class="glossterm">elephantine</i></a> and a third's
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<a href="../M/monstrosity.html"><i class="glossterm">monstrosity</i></a>. Oppose <span class="firstterm">lightweight</span>. Usage: now borders on techspeak,
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especially in the compound <span class="firstterm">heavyweight
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process</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="heavy-wizardry.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Hed-Rat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">heavy wizardry </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Hed Rat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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