At 17:03 19/08/2002 +1000, Gavin Sherry wrote:

>What Philip seems to be asking for is a mechanism where by if a function
>is marked as being mathematically deterministic (given a particular set of
>parameters the same result is always returned -- eg: cos(), sin(),
>etc) then the result is cached and next time the function is called with
>the same argument(s) the result is retrieved from the cache instead of the
>function being run again.

Exactly. But obviously not limited to simple mathematical functions.




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