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