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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>featurectomy</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="feature-shock.html" title="feature shock"/><link rel="next" href="feep.html" title="feep"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">featurectomy</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feature-shock.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feep.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="featurectomy"/><dt xmlns="" id="featurectomy"><b>featurectomy</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/fee`ch@r·ek´t@·mee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come
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in two flavors, the <span class="firstterm">righteous</span> and the
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<span class="firstterm">reluctant</span>. Righteous featurectomies
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are performed because the remover believes the program would be more
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elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better
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way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as
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removing a <a href="../M/misfeature.html"><i class="glossterm">misfeature</i></a>.) Reluctant featurectomies
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are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or
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execution speed.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feature-shock.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feep.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">feature shock </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> feep</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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