- Industria: Computer; Software
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
In Xcode, setting values that apply only when one or more conditions are met (for example, the product is being built using a particular SDK). Xcode uses these definitions when generating executable code for a particular architecture or for a particular variant of the product.
Industry:Software; Computer
The directory in which Installer places a package’s payload.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) Virtual machine. A simulated computer in that it runs on a host computer but behaves as if it were a separate computer. The Java virtual machine works as a self-contained operating environment to run Java applications and applets. (2) Virtual memory. The use of a disk partition or a file on disk to provide the facilities usually provided by RAM. The virtual-memory manager in Mac OS X provides either a 32-bit or 64-bit protected address space for each task (depending on the options used to build the task) and facilitates efficient sharing of that address space.
Industry:Software; Computer
A wait queue with additional locking semantics. When a thread sleeps, waiting for some event to occur, it releases a related lock so that another thread can cause that event to occur. When the second thread posts the event, the first thread wakes up, and, depending on the condition variable semantics used, either takes the lock immediately or begins waiting for the lock to become available.
Industry:Software; Computer
The direction in which text in a particular language is written and read. The English language has a left-to-right line direction; Arabic and Hebrew have a (primarily) right-to-left line direction.
Industry:Software; Computer
Audio Interchange File Format Extension for Compression. An extension of AIFF that supports storage of either compressed or uncompressed audio data. May also be abbreviated as AIFF-C. With the availability of newer audio compression schemes such as MP3 and AAC, AIFC is rarely used. It is still supported in Mac OS X.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, a group of configuration files joined together by #include directives.
Industry:Software; Computer
