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thunking

noun

Definitions

  1. The use of thunks (data mappings).

    • DLLs are greatly affected by this thunking mechanism.
    • But if you have a copy of Visual Basic version 4 hanging around, thunking is easy.
    • Most runtimes (including the CLR) provide a way to integrate with C-based libraries through a thunking layer.

  2. present participle and gerund of thunk

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for thunking. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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