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    In computer programming, the act of swapping two variables refers to mutually exchanging the values of the variables. Usually, this is done with the data...
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    In computer programming, the exclusive or swap (sometimes shortened to XOR swap) is an algorithm that uses the exclusive or bitwise operation to swap the...
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  • another Barter Swap (computer programming), exchanging two variables in the memory of a computer Swap partition, a partition on a computer storage used...
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    Hot swapping is the replacement or addition of components to a computer system without stopping, shutting down, or rebooting the system. Hot plugging...
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  • Memory paging (redirect from Swap file)
    In computer operating systems, memory paging is a memory management scheme that allows the physical memory used by a program to be non-contiguous. This...
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  • Disk swapping refers to the practice of inserting and removing, or swapping, floppy disks in a floppy disk drive-based computer system. In the early days...
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  • for Algorithmic Language 1960) is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages. It followed on from ALGOL 58 which had introduced code...
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    element with the one after it, swapping their values if needed. These passes through the list are repeated until no swaps have to be performed during a...
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  • name was a pun based upon the programming language catchphrases of the time, because Mesa is a "high level" programming language. Mesa is an ALGOL-like...
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    state Task switching "Concurrency vs Parallelism, Concurrent Programming vs Parallel Programming". Oracle. Archived from the original on April 7, 2016. Retrieved...
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    In computer science, a thread of execution is the smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a scheduler, which...
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    -ɡɔːl/; short for "Algorithmic Language") is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL heavily influenced...
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  • In computer algorithms, block swap algorithms swap two regions of elements of an array. It is simple to swap two non-overlapping regions of an array of...
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    do lenient programs require?" (PDF). Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Functional programming languages and computer architecture...
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  • Generic programming is a style of computer programming in which algorithms are written in terms of data types to-be-specified-later that are then instantiated...
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  • (2010). The Linux Programming Interface. No Starch Press. Ralston, Anthony, ed. (2000). "Reentrant Program". Encyclopedia of Computer Science (4th ed.)...
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  • pages can be swapped in. A system thrashing is often a result of a sudden spike in page demand from a small number of running programs. Swap-token is a...
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  • In computer science, compare-and-swap (CAS) is an atomic instruction used in multithreading to achieve synchronization. It compares the contents of a memory...
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    operating battery-swapping stations for its vehicles, as an alternative to conventional charging stations. It operates over 1,300 battery swap stations in China...
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  • computer and software engineering is the process by which a computer or virtual machine interprets and acts on the instructions of a computer program...
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  • surviving Unix language program. When its home Bell Labs received a PDP-11, dc—written in B—was the first language to run on the new computer, even before an...
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  • In computer science, the standard swap or three point turn[citation needed] is a programming paradigm that exchanges the values of two variables. By using...
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    Virtual memory (category Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester)
    (main) memory". The computer's operating system, using a combination of hardware and software, maps memory addresses used by a program, called virtual addresses...
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    simpler programming. These pushdown automatons were also implemented in minicomputers and microprocessors later, which influenced programming language...
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  • Double compare-and-swap (DCAS or CAS2) is an atomic primitive proposed to support certain concurrent programming techniques. DCAS takes two not necessarily...
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  • In computer programming, a variable is said to be volatile if its value can be read or modified asynchronously by something other than the current thread...
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  • Forth is a stack-oriented programming language and interactive integrated development environment designed by Charles H. "Chuck" Moore and first used...
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    The Fredkin gate (also controlled-SWAP gate and conservative logic gate) is a computational circuit suitable for reversible computing, invented by Edward...
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  • Temporary variable (category Variable (computer science))
    In computer programming, a temporary variable is a variable with short lifetime, usually to hold data that will soon be discarded, or before it can be...
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  • develop functional programming languages for quantum computing. Functional programming languages are well-suited for reasoning about programs. Examples include...
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