[very common]
1. (pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see {tune}) in which
incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little noticeable
improvement, often with the result that the code becomes
incomprehensible.
2. Aimless small modification to a program, esp. for some pointless
goal.
3. Approx. syn. for {bit bashing}; esp. used for the act of frobbing
the device control register of a peripheral in an attempt to get it
back to a known state.
[glossary]
[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {bit bashing}{twiddle}]