bit twiddling


bit twiddling

(1)(pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see tune) in whichincredible amounts of time and effort go to produce littlenoticeable improvement, often with the result that the codebecomes incomprehensible.

bit twiddling

(2)Aimless small modification to a program, especially forsome pointless goal.

bit twiddling

(3)bit bashing, especially used for the act of frobbing thedevice control register of a peripheral in an attempt to getit back to a known state.

bit twiddling

Programming at a very low level (manipulating the bits and bytes). Also may refer to spending excessive time on unimportant refinements. See hacker.