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slurp

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slurp - To read a large data file entirely into core before working on it. This may be contrasted with the strategy of reading a small piece at a time, processing it, and then reading the next piece. "This program slurps in a 1K-by-1K matrix and does an FFT." See also sponge.
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And we now know that NAFTA produced some economic benefits with the loss of jobs that created, at most, a slurp of a straw, not any great sucking sound.
The sky failed to fall by Crumpley, Charles / Los Angeles Business Journal
But there is surely a crucial difference: the Birmingham building is like a giant spotty slug, which slurps in visitors through tiny orifices.
Graz versus Birmingham by Maddison, Alysoun / The Architectural Review
The further west one goes, however, the less popular it is, with the whole of Europe barely eating 1/15th of the number of packets Japan now slurps through annually (400 million vs.
Oodles of noodles for the mobile masses: Japan's industrial heartland ... by Al-Badri, Dominic / Japan Inc.
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