| adv. | 1. | Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly. |
| 2. | (Mus.) Quickly; rapidly; - a direction for a quick, lively movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or any rate of time except prestissimo. |
| Adj. | 1. | presto - (of tempo) very fast |
| Adv. | 1. | presto - suddenly; "Presto! begone! 'tis here again"- Swift |
| 2. | presto - at a very fast tempo (faster than allegro) |
| PRESTO - A parallel language for shared-memory multiprocessors, built
on top of C++ by Bershad et al, U Washington 1987. PRESTO
provides classes for threads and spinlocks as well as
Mesa-style monitors and condition variables. ftp://cs.washington.edu/pub/presto1.0.tar.Z. E-mail: ["PRESTO: A Kernel for Parallel Programming Environments", B.N. Bershad et al, U Wash CS TR, Jan 1987]. |
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