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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Warner | __---_____ Albatross Consulting Pty. Ltd. |----/ - \ (A.B.N. 75 008 659 498) | /(@) ______---_ Tel: (+61) 0500 83 82 81 | _________ \ Fax: (+61) 0500 83 82 82 | ___________ | Http://www.rhyme.com.au | / \| | --________-- PGP key available upon request, | / and from pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371 |/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
