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In computing, a reference implementation (or, infrequently,
sample implementation) is a software example of a standard for use
in helping others implement their own versions of the standard. A standard is much easier to understand with a working example to
hand.
The reference implementation may or may not be of production quality. The Fraunhofer reference implementation of MP3 is considered of lower
encoding quality than many other implementations, such as LAME. However, the X.org reference implementation of the X
Window System is not only ready for use, but is increasingly popular on open
source Unix-like operating systems as-is. (This is helped by the current version being a fork of the popular XFree86
implementation that X.org then declared to be the reference implementation.)
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