Ah ah :-D In my example I want to be able to do the calls without caching or with caching. Without for debugging because I amend the server side at times and want always fresh data (yes, I could have a cache with TTL of about nothing).
Memoization is useful for not having to write the caching thing all the time. DynamicVariables are darker magic that this, right? Phil On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:56 AM, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Because caching are always comes with concerns, like when/where do we want > to drop cached results and recalculate them, if needed.. > With memoization it seems like there's simply no such concern at all.. > meaning that cached data will live forever since created once.. which is > never good > for dynamic system.. because i spent significant portion of my smalltalk > life hunting for leaks and immortal references that you cannot get rid of, > because some guy forgot to provide a nice and easy interface or api to get > rid of volatile data.. like open files or socket connections, session etc > etc.. > and now.. let us welcome.. memoization. :) > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko. >
