Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Presto \Pres"to\, adv. [It. or Sp. presto quick, quickly. See
{Prest}, a.]
1. Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly.
Presto! begone! 'tis here again. --Swift.
2. (Mus.) Quickly; rapidly; -- a direction for a quick,
lively movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or
any rate of time except prestissimo.
Source : WordNet®
presto
adj : (of tempo) very fast
adv 1: suddenly; "Presto! begone! 'tis here again"- Swift
2: at a very fast tempo (faster than allegro)
Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
PRESTO
A parallel language for shared-memory multiprocessors, built
on top of C++ by Bershad et al, U Washington 1987. PRESTO
provides {class}es for {thread}s and {spinlock}s as well as
{Mesa}-style {monitor}s and {condition variable}s.
{(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].