On 2022-09-19 17:31:31 +0000, Christman, Roger Graydon wrote:
> And fortunately, Python makes memoization very easy, by using a
> dictionary as a default value.   I've done that often for classroom
> purposes for cases where it makes a big difference (recursive
> Fibonacci accelerates from exponential time to linear time).   And the
> process is straightforward enough that you could even define a
> decorator that could be applied to any function you choose.

Such a decorator is already part of the Python standard library:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.lru_cache

        hp

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