swizzle
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with iceType of mixed drinkMade of rum
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
To drink; to swill. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally. dialect (England)
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
To convert external names, array indices, or references within a data structure into address pointers when the data structure is brought into main memory from external storage (also called "pointer swizzling"); this may be done for speed in chasing references or to simplify code (e.g. by turning lots of name lookups into pointer dereferences). The converse operation is sometimes termed "unswizzling".
See also snap. [Jargon File]
The Jargon File
To convert external names, array indices, or references within a data structure into address pointers when the data structure is brought into main memory from external storage (also called pointer swizzling); this may be done for speed in chasing references or to simplify code (e.g., by turning lots of name lookups into pointer dereferences). The converse operation is sometimes termed unswizzling. See also snap.