washing machine = W = water MIPS

washing software n.

The process of recompiling a software distribution (used more often when the recompilation is occuring from scratch) to pick up and merge together all of the various changes that have been made to the source.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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