--- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:58:11PM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote: > > Ahh. This is better. How does one implement a more sophisticated > > cache management strategy? > > > > That is, what is the mechanism for manipulating the run-time system > > behavior of subs? > > How about the same way as one would do it now? Presumably we won't > all > forget how to program when Perl 6 comes out.
Paul, I think you've missed the point. The original poster (Smylers) asked if there was a benefit to only cacheing certain values, presuming the remainder would be either trivial to compute or internally cached, or both. The suggestion was that a more advanced cache management strategy could be attached, presumably changing the behavior of the function-return-caching subsystem. I'm all in favor of that, but it's a new rock to turn over looking for details. If you're proposing that the right answer is to not cache the function, but rather implement an internal cache, then cool - you've got a friend in Smylersvania. But if not, then presumably you know something I do not know: enlighten me, please? =Austin
