On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:58:11PM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote: > --- Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It doesn't matter whether some of the values are cheap lookups > > while other values are "complex calculations". Once a cached sub > > is called with a set of parameter values, the return value will > > always be a cheap lookup in the memoized sub's cache. > > You may get some disagreement from those for whom memory is neither > virtual nor free.
Memoization is simply the exchange of cheap memory lookups for complicated calculations. If memory is more precious than a few CPU cycles, then you shouldn't be memoizing. Z.
