DEEP MAGIC


Meaning of DEEP MAGIC in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ n. ]

[poss. from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, esp. one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art ); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard . Compiler optimization techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic ; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry . Esp. found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here ... ". Compare voodoo programming .

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