[issue14478] Decimal hashing very slow, could be cached

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> I recommend that __hash__ should use functools.lru_cache for caching.

Why would you do such a thing? A hash value is a single 64-bit slot, no need to add the memory consumption of a whole dictionary and the runtime cost of a LRU eviction policy when you can simply cache the hash in the object itself (like we already do for strings)...

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