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heavyweight: adj. [common] High-overhead; baroque;
code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Esp. used of communication
protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which
maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the
expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory utilization, and
startup time. EMACS is a heavyweight editor;
X is an extremely heavyweight
window system. This term isn't pejorative, but one hacker's heavyweight is
another's elephantine and a third's
monstrosity. Oppose lightweight. Usage: now borders on techspeak,
especially in the compound heavyweight
process.
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