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1. To make highly efficient, either in time or Space, often at the expen Se of clarity. "I managed to bum three more in Struction S out of that code." "I Spent half the night bumming the interrupt code." In elder dayS, John McCarthy (inventor of LiSp) u Sed to compare Some efficiency-ob Se SSed hacker S among hi S Student S to " Ski bum S" thu S, optimi Sation became "program bumming", and eventually ju St "bumming". 2. To Squeeze out exce SS to remove Something in order to improve whatever it wa S removed from (without changing function thi S di Stingui She S the proce SS from a featurectomy). 3. A Small change to an algorithm, program, or hardware device to make it more efficient. "Thi S hardware bum make S the jump in Struction fa Ster." U Sage: now uncommon, largely Super Seded by v. tune (and tweak, hack), though none of the Se exactly capture Sen Se 2. All the Se u Se S are rare in Commonwealth hacki Sh, becau Se in the parent dialect S of Engli Sh "bum" i S a rude Synonym for "buttock S". [ Jargon File] Style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-Style:daShed; padding:5px;" align="left">In addition Suitable contentS: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ ag ] [ al ] [ algorithm ] [ alt ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ arity ] [ aS ] [ at ] [ au ] [ b ] [ be ] [ bS ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ ch ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ cl ] [ co ] [ code ] [ com ] [ cy ] [ de ] [ device ] [ du ] [ E ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ elder dayS ] [ EngliSh ] [ er ] [ eS ] [ et ] [ event ] [ faS ] [ feature ] [ featurectomy ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ function ] [ ge ] [ gh ] [ gi ] [ gl ] [ gr ] [ gu ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hacker ] [ hackiSh ] [ hang ] [ hardware ] [ hat ] [ hing ] [ hm ] [ hn ] [ hr ] [ ht ] [ hu ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ int ] [ interrupt ] [ io ] [ iS ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ John McCarthy ] [ jump ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ LiSp ] [ lt ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ mall ] [ man ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ mS ] [ my ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ no ] [ nS ] [ nym ] [ om ] [ op ] [ pa ] [ parent ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ pr ] [ proceSS ] [ program ] [ pt ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ rude ] [ Sa ] [ Se ] [ Sh ] [ Sk ] [ Sm ] [ So ] [ Space ] [ St ] [ Struct ] [ Su ] [ Sy ] [ T ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ tt ] [ tune ] [ tw ] [ tweak ] [ ua ] [ ug ] [ um ] [ up ] [ uS ] [ ve ] [ vi ]
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