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Thanking vs Thunking - What's the difference?

thanking | thunking |

As nouns the difference between thanking and thunking

is that thanking is the act by which thanks are given; thanks while thunking is (computing) the use of thunks (data mappings).

As a verb thanking

is .

thanking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which thanks are given; thanks.
  • * (William Shakespeare), Measure for Measure
    • Many and hearty thankings to you both.

    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.