May 15, 2003

slurp

vt.

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:30 AM

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