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Decrunches vs Decruncher - What's the difference?

decrunches | decruncher |

As a verb decrunches

is (decrunch).

As a noun decruncher is

a program or algorithm that performs decrunching.

decrunches

English

Verb

(head)
  • (decrunch)

    • decrunch

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (computing) To decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching.
  • * 1993 , The New York Times Book Review (volume 98, page 2)
    • Several phone calls and a borrowed Mac later, I found that the single disk sent me wouldn't in any case decrunch (uncompress its data) without a sister disk — which had gone astray across the Atlantic. Such hitches are always irritating
  • * 1996 , "Marcus Alanen", Re: Exe Crunchers'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.amiga.programmer )
    • The executable is still decrunched in memory, so it will _use_ some extra memory but _save_ disk space.
  • * 1998 , Sandra Martz, ?Shirley Coe, Generation to generation (page 123)
    • Dear Dr. Destiny, my dictionary on CD-ROM won't decrunch , what do you recommend?

    decruncher

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A program or algorithm that performs decrunching.

    • References

    * Usenet newsgroups: [https://groups.google.com/forum/
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