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- noun computing An
instruction oroperation that has no significant effect.
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Examples
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While the joy stick is no-op because the switches vibrated loose the crew recalls there last moments.
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A very minimal system might just provide a set of inbuilt libraries that are there in the initial namespace, so require-ing them is a no-op, a require mechanism that is just file inclusion perhaps checking the included file contains a single module with the same name as we're expecting, if we can be bothered, and a module macro that just expands to its contents.
Snell-Pym » R7RS 2009
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Here's an example: in the readFast.py file, += is used to join strings, files are iterated inefficiently, and no-op function calls are performed.
Performance: C, C++, C#, Java, Perl and Python Egon Willighagen 2008
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A thread passing objects to one of its own children is an easy no-op, for a start, if the object existed before the fork so is below it in the chain.
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N2670's only user-visible changes are a bunch of no-op Standard Library functions, which we already picked up in VC10.
Site Home vcblog 2011
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WriteLine except that this shows up only for Debug build and is no-op in Retail build.
Site Home raj.kamal13 2011
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· Changed glXSwapBuffers () behavior for a pixmap such that it is now a no-op in the direct rendering case in order to match the indirect case and comply with the GLX spec.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010
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As we don't have a notion to run asynchronous in our little world, we simply return the no-op action delegate from the observer function.
B# .NET Technical Community Homepage bart 2010
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Query planner enhancement - the ORDER BY becomes a no-op if the query also contains a
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The below converter is a no-op converter named, "DebugConverter."
Site Home 2010
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