On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 6:46 PM, Matt Arcidy <marcidy@gmail.com> wrote:
I have been struggling to justify the need based on what I have read. I hope this isn't a dupe, I only saw caching mentioned in passing.
Also please excuse some of the naive generalizations below for illustrative purposes.
Is there a reason memoization doesn't work? If f is truly expensive, using this syntax only makes sense if you have few comprehensions (as opposed to many iterations) and few other calls to f. Calling f in 10 comprehensions would (naively) benefit from memoization more than this. It appears to me to be ad-hoc memoization with limited scope. is this a fair statement?
Memoization is only an option if the expression in question is (a) a single cacheable function call, and (b) used twice without any variation. If it's any sort of more complicated expression, that concept doesn't work. ChrisA