meaning of heavy metal
1. heavy metal big iron heavyweight High-overhead; baroque; code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Especially 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 use and startup time. Emacs is a heavyweight editor; X is an *extremely* heavyweight window system. This term isnt pejorative, but one hackers heavyweight is anothers elephantine and a thirds monstrosity. Opposite: "lightweight". Usage: now borders on technical especially in the compound "heavyweight process".
2. loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery
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