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Saturday May 26, 2007
What is Thunking?
From Wiktionary:

thunk (plural thunks)

1. (computing, functional programming) a delayed computation
2. (computing) In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
3. (computing) a mapping of machine data from one system-specific form to another, usually for compatibility reasons, such as from 16-bit addresses to 32-bit to allow a 16-bit program to run on a 32-bit operating system

I think my Blog is most represented by definition (3). The goal being to take machine data from my head -> blog, but definition (2) is relevant, because I am taking no argument (editing) and by definition (1) as I get older, the computations are getting more and more delayed :)
Posted at 09:15PM May 26, 2007 by buraddo in Ramblings  |  Comments[0]

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