Walter Bright wrote:
Michel Fortin wrote:
Hum, could the compiler be trusted to add the memoization code to pure
functions so they can stay pure?
If the compiler does general memoization on pure functions, all it has
to do is use the bits of the arguments passed on the stack to the
function as an index into an associative array of the return values.
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Walter, before you go and implement any of this, I must point out that
it's spelt "memorization" and "memorize". (Or "memorisation" and
"memorise" if you're British, but that's an aside.)
Stewart.
