Re: Caching of values and delayed sets
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- Subject: [mg39693] Re: Caching of values and delayed sets
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- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 22:05:50 -0500 (EST)
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This does the trick you want of memorising previously computed results. C:=(C=expression for evaluating C) -- Steve Luttrell West Malvern, UK "Nafod40" <may106 at psu.edu> wrote in message news:b3pgdu$7hr$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Hola Amigos, > > I have a variable A that depends via a delayed set on variables B1 > through B1000 that each depend via delayed set on variable C and other > a mixture of the other B's, which delayed set depends on some slow to > calculate function C:= slow[ ]. If you explode out the tree view of A > symbolically, the variable C might appear 5000 times in a messy > acyclic dependency graph. > > How do I inject some smarts, so that, when asking for the value of A, > I only evaluate C:=slow[ ] once, and cache it and use the cached value > for every other time that I need C? >