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Wop vs Nop - What's the difference?

wop | nop |

As nouns the difference between wop and nop

is that wop is (uk|us|slang|derogatory|ethnic slur) a person of italian descent while nop is (programming) a no-op; a cpu instruction that does nothing.

As a verb nop is

(programming) to replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.

wop

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.
  • Synonyms

    * (person of Italian descent) dago, Eyetie, goombah, greaseball, guido, guinea, wog

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    * English ethnic slurs ----

    nop

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (programming) A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
  • * 1999 , Dominic Sweetman, See MIPS Run
  • The MIPS instruction set is rich in nops , since any instruction with zero as a destination is guaranteed to do nothing.
  • * 2004 , Patterson et al'', ''Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface
  • Notice that in computing CPI or IPC, we do not count any nops executed as useful instructions.

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (programming) To replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.
  • * 1992 , The Cyborg, The Cracking Manual
  • For example, if there is a CALL 3140 and we want to skip this call, we can NOP it out.

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