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bit twiddling

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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.

1.bit twiddling - (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.bit twiddling - Aimless small modification to a program, especially for some pointless goal.
3.bit twiddling - bit bashing, especially 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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