inner-loopcoding

noun

UK /ˈɪnə luːp ˈkəʊdɪŋ/

US /ˈɪnər luːp ˈkoʊdɪŋ/

Writing the small, repeated part of a program that does the main work over and over.

She spent the afternoon inner-loopcoding to make the game's animation run smoothly.

SYNONYMS

core coding hot-path programming tight-loop coding kernel coding

RELATED WORDS

loop iteration optimization algorithm performance

OTHER MEANINGS

2. The practice of focusing on the most frequently executed section of code to improve speed.

Profiling showed the inner-loopcoding was the bottleneck, so they rewrote it in C.

3. A style of development where a programmer rapidly cycles through small edits and tests.

Their inner-loopcoding workflow relies on fast unit tests and instant feedback.

4. The repetitive core logic inside a nested loop structure.

The inner-loopcoding multiplied each row by the column value.