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dword

noun

Etymology

From double word.

Definitions

  1. A numerical value of twice the magnitude of a word, typically used in the same contexts…

    A numerical value of twice the magnitude of a word, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 32 bits.

    • Using a double loop, each dword of the first factor is multiplied by each dword of the second factor […]
    • A bridge may combine posted memory writes to successive dwords into a single burst memory write transaction using linear addressing.
    • The subtraction of each dword is independent of the other; there is no borrow from dword to dword.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dword. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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