Thunk

Thunk may refer to:

• Thunk (functional programming), a piece of code to perform a delayed computation (similar to a closure)
• Thunk (object-oriented programming): a feature of some virtual function table implementations
• Thunk (compatibility mapping), a mapping of machine data from one system-specific form to another, usually for compatibility reasons
• A measure of time, used on Digital Equipment Corporation computers, measuring the number of clock ticks since the founding of the Smithsonian Institution

See also

• Futures and promises
• Lambda expression
• Shim (computing)
• Trampoline (computing)