tunable

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To continue the software metaphors, batteries provide caching, and the cache is tunable for cost and performance.

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Quick take

Able to be tuned.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tunable gathered in one view.

adjective

Able to be tuned.

adjective

(now rare) Harmonious, melodic, tuneful.

noun

(computing) A setting that can be configured.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tunable.

adjective

Able to be tuned.

adjective

(now rare) Harmonious, melodic, tuneful.

noun

(computing) A setting that can be configured.

Example sentences

To continue the software metaphors, batteries provide caching, and the cache is tunable for cost and performance.

So taking a narrow slice with a tunable optical filter (which aren't that narrow really) would mean the detector would see a very small signal indeed.

Pretty interesting read, the concept of tunable consistency was foreign to me, keep on the good work!

Dynamo-based systems have 'tunable consistency' but that's almost always over one key: multi-key operations are usually inconsistent.

At best, this is an ersatz replacement for the tunable filter on a hyperspectral imaging system.

In fact, C++ unordered_map is not tunable enough to offer excellent performance for most use cases.

While it wouldn't be as visceral as these glasses, you could mimic arbitrarily fine-grained color perception with a tunable bandpass filter.

Roomer has it that the original Cray 1 design didn't have a tunable cooling unit.

It is also easy to treat as a black box with many tunable parameters.

Immune to brigades, and reader-tunable to their individual preference level for jokes and flames.

It's all automatic and tunable in order to produce the desired result from society.

To do this in full production mode, I would think you would probably make it user tunable.

Quote examples

Its only in the past couple years they really started mentioning the fact it was "tunable consistency" blatantly rather rather than burying it in a couple places in the manual.

The distribution model is Dynamo/eventual consistency (there are, however, tunable "knobs": you can choose how much of either consistency, availability and partition tolerance you want to give up in favour of the other two).

Anyway, seeing nothing "wrong" with the related code (other than no tolerance for error codes from the raw i/o calls), I theorized that maybe the "errors" were spurious and no actual fault or corruption was resulting, so I wrapped the i/o calls in retry loops (with the number of retry attempts tunable by the user) and logged any "failures" and results of the retry attempts.