What is "bartok"

The game of Bartok, also known by a number of other names, such as Wartoke, Warthog, Bartog, Bentok, Last One Standing or Bong 98, is a card game where the winner of each round invents a new rule which must be obeyed for the remainder of the game. It belongs to the "shedding" or Crazy Eights family of card games, whereby each player tries to rid himself of all of his cards. The game progresses through a series of rounds with a new rule being added in each round, thus making the game increasingly complex as it progresses. These newly introduced rules may modify any existing rules.

Bartok is an optimizing compiler and managed runtime system for Common Intermediate Language (which .NET languages compile to), being developed by Microsoft Research. It aims to be efficient enough to be usable for writing operating systems. It provides services such as automatic memory management and garbage collection, threading, and marshalling data to and from native code, as well as verification of CIL code. Bartok is written in C#, including the garbage collector. Bartok is being used by Microsoft Research for the implementation of Singularity, a highly- dependable operating system written almost entirely in managed code.

Bartok allows various implementations of the garbage collector, base class library and other components to be chosen at runtime on a per-application basis. This feature is being used to write the different components of Singularity - kernel, device drivers, and applications - each using a separate class library that exposes functionality required by (and optimized for) the specific usage.

Bartok usually refers to Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer.

Bartok may also refer to:

• Bartok (surname), other people with the name
• Bartok (compiler), an advanced compiler being developed by Microsoft Research
• Bartok (card game)
• Bartok, a fictional bat in the movies Anastasia and its prequel Bartok the Magnificent

Bartók is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 112 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979. Bartók is named for the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, who lived from 1881 to 1945.

Bartok or Bartók is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Béla Bartók (1881-1945), Hungarian composer
• Eva Bartok (1927-1998), Hungarian actress
• Ivon Bartok, Canadian film director and producer
• Jayce Bartok (born 1974), American actor

Fictional characters:

• Anton Bartok, character in the film The Fly II
• Bartok, character in the film Last Knights