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Anonymous2017-01-15 11:02
whats a thunk???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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Anonymous2017-01-15 12:14
Search Results In computer programming, a thunk is a subroutine that is created, often automatically, to assist a call to another subroutine. Thunks are primarily used to represent an additional calculation that a subroutine needs to execute, or to call a routine that does not support the usual calling mechanism. Thunk - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunk
Call-by-name evaluation is occasionally preferable to call-by-value evaluation. If a function's argument is not used in the function, call by name will save time by not evaluating the argument, whereas call by value will evaluate it regardless. If the argument is a non-terminating computation, the advantage is enormous. However, when the function argument is used, call by name is often slower, requiring a mechanism such as a thunk.
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Anonymous2017-05-19 19:51
Really makes you think.
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Anonymous2017-05-20 2:35
>>6 Maybe you shouldn't call a function with arguments that won't be used?