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1. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way. Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform. The pain may be due to the triviality' s being embedded in a loop from 1 to 1,000,000,000. "Fortran programs do mostly {number crunching}." 2. To reduce the size of a file without losing information by a complicated scheme that produces bit configurations completely unrelated to the original data, such as by a ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Huffman">Huffman code. Since such ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=compression">compression usually takes more computations than simpler methods such as ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=run-length encoding">run-length encoding, the term is doubly appropriate. (This meaning is usually used in the construction "file crunching" to distinguish it from ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=number crunching">number crunching.) Use of ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=crunch">crunch itself in this sense is rare among ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Unix">Unix hackers. 3. The ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=hash character">hash character. Used at ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=XEROX">XEROX and ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=CMU">CMU, among other places. 4. To squeeze program source to the minimum size that will still compile or execute. The term came from a {BBC Microcomputer} program that crunched {BBC BASIC} {source} in order to make it run more quickly (apart from storing ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=keywords">keywords as byte codes, the language was wholly interpreted, so the number of characters mattered). ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Obfuscated C Contest">Obfuscated C Contest entries are often crunched see the first example under that entry. [ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File] (2002-03-14)

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