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stateful

stateful

1 7.1
A system that keeps information about past interactions
  • adjective
  • /ˈsteɪtfəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : con estado
  • Making the decision service stateful (not stateless) or tying it to the context in which

Examples

  • Coroutines alleviate this by putting stateful control in each place where it is needed.

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  • Once stateful allocators enter the game, things change a bit, but we can ignore this detail here.

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  • Because cells are very stateful processes that no one understands completely.

  • In many styles of programming today, when an application launches, it creates a large set of interconnected stateful objects.

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  • In addition, the community address translation, stateful packet monitoring, and entry ports are inspected for intelligent management of the list.

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  • Noun phrases ("arrayByAddingObject") return the noun so named, and generally do not have stateful effects unless the name suggests so.

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  • Many modern applications are designed to be stateful, allowing them to remember user preferences between sessions.

  • A stateful firewall keeps track of the state of active connections and determines which network packets to allow.

  • In programming, a stateful service can maintain user sessions, making it easier to manage user interactions.

Antonyms

stateless
  • Specialized
1 6.0

Not keeping information about previous requests

How Stateful

persistent
  • Specialized
3 4.9
stateful
  • Specialized
1 7.1
stateless
  • Specialized
1 6.0

Surface Forms

stateful positive

Morphology

stateful = state (transparent) = state + ful

Formed by the productive suffix '-ful' meaning 'having' or 'full of' applied to 'state'; meaning in computing ('having state') is directly derived and easy to infer.

Etymology

The word stateful comes from state 'condition' or 'status' and the ending -ful meaning 'full of'. So a stateful system keeps or remembers a 'state' between actions, which is why it can follow what happened before.