Meaning of Thunk | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A delayed computation.
2. In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
3. A specialized subroutine that one software module uses to execute code in another module.

Equivalents

Examples

“Not surprisingly, a thunk is more expensive to store than a single number[…].”

“If the provider of these DLLs has not updated the code to a 32-bit environment, you will have to switch to a new 32-bit library or write thunks between your 32-bit code and the 16-bit DLL.”

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