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Stable vs Vtable - What's the difference?

stable | vtable |

As nouns the difference between stable and vtable

is that stable is a building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses while vtable is a table of memory pointers to different implementations of a virtual function.

As a verb stable

is to put or keep (horse) in a stable.

As an adjective stable

is relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.

stable

English

Etymology 1

(wikipedia stable) (etyl), from (etyl) estable, from (etyl) )

Noun

(en noun)
  • A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.
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  • (metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.

    • Verb

    (stabl)
  • to put or keep (horse) in a stable.
  • (rail transport) to park (a rail vehicle)
    • Derived terms
    * (rail transport) outstable
    Related terms
    * stabled * stabler * stable-boy * stable-hand

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) stabilis (itself from )

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
    • He was in a stable relationship.
    a stable government
  • * Rogers
    • In this region of chance, where nothing is stable .
    Synonyms
    * fixed
    Antonyms
    * instable * mobile

    Anagrams

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    vtable

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, programming) A table of memory pointers to different implementations of a virtual function.
  • * 2000 , Robert C. Martin, More C++ gems
    • This solution allows the Command executor to iterate through a collection of unrelated objects with no vtables and pick out the right method for each one.
  • * 2003 , John C. Mitchell, Concepts in programming languages
    • Note that nonvirtual functions do not appear in a vtable .
  • * 2003 , Steve Heller, C++: a dialogue: programming with the C++ standard library
    • The most likely result will be a crash when the code tries to use a vtable entry that contains random garbage.