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Taxonomy vs Thunking - What's the difference?

taxonomy | thunking |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and thunking

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while thunking is (computing) the use of thunks (data mappings).

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    thunking

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (computing) The use of thunks (data mappings).
  • * 1995 , Kathleen Panov, Larry Salomon, Arthur Panov, The Art of OS/2 Warp Programming
    • DLLs are greatly affected by this thunking mechanism.
  • * 1997 , Bruce McKinney, Hardcore Visual Basic
    • But if you have a copy of Visual Basic version 4 hanging around, thunking is easy.
  • * 2003 , Don Box, Chris Sells, Essential.NET: The Common Language Runtime
    • Most runtimes (including the CLR) provide a way to integrate with C-based libraries through a thunking layer.