deep magic
[possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique
central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor
available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been
composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of
OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal
processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found
in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
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