tempcount
Tempcount is a transient counter used in software systems to tally events or items within a limited scope. Its value is not intended to be persisted across sessions or datasets; it is reset when the counting window closes or a processing step completes.
The term tempcount combines "temporary" and "count". In programming, it is typically implemented as a local variable,
Implementation considerations: In single-threaded code, a simple integer variable suffices. In concurrent environments, atomic counters or
Common uses include counting events in streaming pipelines, tallying occurrences during graph traversals, or maintaining a
Limitations and caveats: since the data is ephemeral, tempcounts provide no durable statistics unless export ed.
See also: temporary variable, counter, sliding window technique, atomic counter.