Definitions

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  • verb transitive To compute in advance; to precalculate.

Etymologies

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pre- +‎ compute

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Examples

  • Obviously there isn't enough space to precompute what recommendations to show every possible type of person that queries a site.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2010

  • Obviously there isn't enough space to precompute what recommendations to show every possible type of person that queries a site.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2010

  • Obviously there isn't enough space to precompute what recommendations to show every possible type of person that queries a site.

    Zach Klein Universal Feed 2010

  • GPU techniques continue, but from my point of view, they are less focused on the pattern of past years: "precompute for 17 hours and you can play with this in real time!"

    Planet Mozilla Joe Drew 2010

  • So we precompute a number of scenarios and add those to different indexes.

    Planet MySQL Tim O'Reilly 2010

  • First, we precompute for each block i two sets GEN [i] and KILL [i].

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • First, we precompute for each block i two sets GEN [i] and KILL [i].

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • So you can't precompute generally for passwords as with the LEAP and PPTP weakness, but you could precompute passwords against common SSIDs, like linksys.

    Wi-Fi Networking News 2009

  • So you can't precompute generally for passwords as with the LEAP and PPTP weakness, but you could precompute passwords against common SSIDs, like linksys.

    Wi-Fi Networking News 2009

  • Combining the salt with the password makes it too big to precompute into a database.

    Errata Security 2009

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