heavyweight
adj. High-overhead;
baroque; code-intensive;
featureful, but costly. Esp. 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
utilization, and startup time.
EMACS is a heavyweight editor;
X is an *extremely* heavyweight window system. This term
isn't pejorative, but one man's heavyweight is another's
elephantine and a third's
monstrosity. Oppose
`lightweight'. Usage now borders on techspeak, especially in
the compound `heavyweight process'.
