Assault vs Aggressive - What's the difference?
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A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town.
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* Shakespeare
A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government.
(criminal, legal) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching his person, as by lifting a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at him and missing him.
(singulare tantum, legal) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm.
(singulare tantum, legal) The tort whose action is such an act.
(fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.
(label) Of code optimization techniques: exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
* 1996 , Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6 , Springer (ISBN 9783540610533), page 59
* 2001 , Paul Feautrier (edited by Santosh Pande and Dharma P. Agrawal), Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems , Springer (ISBN 9783540419457), page 173
* 2002 , Y. N. Srikant, Priti Shankar, The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation , CRC Press (ISBN 9781420040579), page 465
* 2002 , Shpeisman, T. ; Lueh, G.-Y. ; Adl-Tabatabai, A.-R., PACT 2002: 2002 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques : proceedings : 22-25 September, 2002, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA , IEEE Computer Society Press (ISBN 9780769516202), page 249
* 2003 , Susanna Pelagatti (edited by Fethi Rabhi and Sergei Gorlatch), Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing , Springer (ISBN 9781852335069), page 182
* 2011 , Wen-mei W. Hwu, GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition , Elsevier (ISBN 9780123859648), page 11
As a noun assault
is a violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town.As a verb assault
is to attack, threaten or harass.As an adjective aggressive is
tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.assault
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault .
- Unshaken bears the assault / Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest.
Synonyms
*Derived terms
* antiassault * assault and battery * nonassault * reassaultCoordinate terms
* batteryaggressive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an aggressive policy, war, person, nation
- This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.
- Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.
- However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation.
- The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.
- This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure.
- The CUDA C code for the GPU, as well as the C and inline assembly code for the CPU, were highly optimized and aggressive compiler optimizations (-O4) were turned on.