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bit twiddling: n. [very common] 1. (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. Aimless small modification to a program, esp. for some pointless
goal. 3. Approx. syn. for bit bashing; esp. 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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