cracking
= C =
crapplet
crank vt.
[from automotive slang] Verb used to describe the
performance of a machine, especially sustained performance. "This
box cranks (or, cranks at) about 6 megaflops, with a burst mode of
twice that on vectorized operations."
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.