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| * ABI: [Application Binary Interface](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_binary_interface) | ||||||
| * ASAP: As Soon As Possible. | ||||||
| * BE: Big Endian - Byte order style in a multibyte data. | ||||||
| (Opposite of LE, Little Endian) | ||||||
| * CI: [Continuous Integration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration). | ||||||
| * CITGM: Canary In The Gold Mine - a smoke test unit in the repo that | ||||||
| contain popular npm modules. | ||||||
| * CJS: Common JS. | ||||||
| * CLDR: [Common Locale Data Repository](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Locale_Data_Repository). | ||||||
| * CLI: [Command Line Interface](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface). | ||||||
| * CVE: Common Vulnerebilities and Exposures - A database that | ||||||
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| maintains reported security exposures. | ||||||
| * ECMA: European Computer Manufacturers Association - A body that | ||||||
| governs JS spec among other things. | ||||||
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| * EOF: [End Of File](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-file) | ||||||
| * EOL: End Of Line (when used within a program), End of Life | ||||||
| (when used within project documents). | ||||||
| * ESM: ECMA Script Module. | ||||||
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| * ETW: Event Tracing for Windows. | ||||||
| * FFDC: First Failure Data Capture - Common terms for logs, traces | ||||||
| and dumps that are produced by default on program error. | ||||||
| * FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standards. | ||||||
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| * FS: File System. | ||||||
| * ICU: International Components for Unicode. | ||||||
| * IPC: Inter Process Communication. | ||||||
| * JIT: [Just In Time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation) | ||||||
| Is a way of executing computer code that involves compilation during execution | ||||||
| of a program `at run time` rather than before execution. | ||||||
| * JS/C++ boundary: It refers to the boundary between V8's runtime and the | ||||||
| JS code execution which are commonly crossed when invoking JS functions with | ||||||
| C++ linkage (e.g. interceptors). The boundary could very well exist when we | ||||||
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| are reaching into the C++ to do something that has nothing to do with the | ||||||
| platform, e.g. URL parsing. | ||||||
| * LGTM: Looks good to me - commonly used to approve a code review. | ||||||
| * LTS: Long Term Support. | ||||||
| * MDN: [Mozila Development Network](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US). | ||||||
| * OOB: Out Of Bounds - Used in the context of array(memory) access. | ||||||
| * OOM: Out Of Memory. | ||||||
| * PPC: Power PC. | ||||||
| * PTAL: Please Take A Look. | ||||||
| * RAII: [Resource Aquisition Is Intialization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_acquisition_is_initialization) | ||||||
| * REPL: Read Evaluate Print Loop. REPL is available as a standalone program | ||||||
| (invoke node without arguments), used for developing / testing small programs. | ||||||
| * RFC: Request For Comments. | ||||||
| * RSLGTM: Rubber-Stamp Looks Good To Me. The reviewer approving without doing | ||||||
| a full code review. | ||||||
| * RSS: [Resident Set Size](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_set_size). | ||||||
| * SMP: Symmetric Multi Processor. | ||||||
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| * TSC: Technical Steering Committee. Detailed info see | ||||||
| [TSC](./GOVERNANCE.md#technical-steering-committee). | ||||||
| * V8: JavaScript engine that powers Node.js and chrome browser. | ||||||
| * VM: The [VM module](https://nodejs.org/api/vm.html) provides a way of | ||||||
| executing JavaScript on a virtual machine. | ||||||
| * WASI: [Web Assemby System Interface]( https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI) | ||||||
| * WASM: Web Assembly. | ||||||
| * WG: Working Group - autonomous teams in the project with specific | ||||||
| focus areas. | ||||||
| * WHATWG: Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group | ||||||
| * WIP: "Work In Progress" - e.g. a patch that's not finished, but | ||||||
| may be worth an early look. | ||||||
| * WPT: [web-platform-tests](https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt) | ||||||
| * bootstrap: Early phase in the Node.js process startup - that sets up | ||||||
| the Node.js execution environment and loads the internal modules. | ||||||
| * code cache: A chunk of bytes storing compiled JS code and its metadata. | ||||||
| * deps: upstream projects that this project depends. | ||||||
| * godbolt: [Compiler Explorer](https://godbolt.org/) run compilers | ||||||
| interactively from your web browser and interact with the assembly. | ||||||
| Was created by and is primarily administrated by Matt Godbolt. | ||||||
| * native modules/addons: A module / shared library that is | ||||||
| implemented in C/C++, but exposes one or more interfaces, | ||||||
| callable from JS. | ||||||
| * primordials: Pristine built-ins that are not effected by prototype | ||||||
| pollution and tampering with built-ins. | ||||||
| * snapshot: When referring to the V8 startup snapshot, a chunk of | ||||||
| bytes containing data serialized from a V8 heap, which can be | ||||||
| deserialized to restore the states of the V8 engine. | ||||||
| * vendoring: consuming external software into this project. | ||||||
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