heavyweight
: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'.
Jargon File Version 4.3.1, 29 JUN 2001 =
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