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swizzle


  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swizzle  \Swiz"zle\,  v.  t. 
  To  drink;  to  swill.  --Halliwell. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swizzle  \Swiz"zle\,  n. 
  Ale  and  beer  mixed;  also  drink  generally.  [Prov.  Eng.] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  swizzle 
  n  :  any  of  various  tall  frothy  mixed  drinks  made  usually  of  rum 
  and  lime  juice  and  sugar  shaken  with  ice 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  swizzle  v.  To  convert  external  names  array  indices,  or 
  references  within  a  data  structure  into  address  pointers  when  the  data 
  structure  is  brought  into  main  memory  from  external  storage  (also  called 
  `pointer  swizzling');  this  may  be  done  for  speed  in  chasing  references 
  or  to  simplify  code  (e.g.,  by  turning  lots  of  name  lookups  into  pointer 
  dereferences).  The  converse  operation  is  sometimes  termed  `unswizzling'. 
  See  also  {snap}. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  swizzle 
 
  To  convert  external  names  array  indices,  or  references  within 
  a  data  structure  into  address  pointers  when  the  data  structure 
  is  brought  into  main  memory  from  external  storage  (also  called 
  "pointer  swizzling");  this  may  be  done  for  speed  in  chasing 
  references  or  to  simplify  code  (e.g.  by  turning  lots  of  name 
  lookups  into  pointer  dereferences).  The  converse  operation  is 
  sometimes  termed  "unswizzling". 
 
  See  also  {snap}. 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
 




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