[Haskell-beginners] Relying on memoization

[Daniel Fischer]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Russ Abbott <russ.abbott at gmail.com> wrote:

> After writing the previous post, it struck me that memoization could be
> done at the function level. If each function had an associated Map
> <Arguments> <Result>, lookup would be much simpler and more localized. One
> could then decide on a function-by-function basis which maps to expand.
> *
> -- Russ *
>
>
There are packages on hackage to memoise functions, e.g.
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/data-memocombinators

You have to decide yourself which functions to memoise, there are no good
heuristics for the compiler to decide, as far as I know.
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