Question What is meant by "streamline the code's inner workings" ?

[shaharhada]

Device drivers help close the gap between user applications and hardware, as well as streamline the code's inner workings.
What is the meaning of the expression streamline the code's inner workings ?

From:
https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatacenter/definition/kernel

 

[Colif]

You want us to interpret what they mean in a sentence?

I could guess drivers can carry out some of the functions the code is trying to achieve without the code needing to have exact instructions

The main purpose of device drivers is to provide abstraction by acting as a translator between a hardware device and the applications or operating systems that use it.[1] Programmers can write higher-level application code independently of whatever specific hardware the end-user is using.
For example, a high-level application for interacting with a serial port may simply have two functions for "send data" and "receive data". At a lower level, a device driver implementing these functions would communicate to the particular serial port controller installed on a user's computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_driver

 

[USAFRet]

Device drivers help close the gap between user applications and hardware, as well as streamline the code's inner workings.
What is the meaning of the expression streamline the code's inner workings ?

From:
https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatacenter/definition/kernel

Make the whole operation more efficient.