Memoizer

Synopsis

Memoizer wraps objects to provide cached method calls.

  class X
    def initialize ; @tick = 0 ; end
    def tick; @tick + 1; end
    def memo; @memo ||= Memoizer.new(self) ; end
  end

  x = X.new
  x.tick       #=> 1
  x.memo.tick  #=> 2
  x.tick       #=> 3
  x.memo.tick  #=> 2
  x.tick       #=> 4
  x.memo.tick  #=> 2

You can also use to cache a collections of objects to gain code speed ups.

  points = points.collect{|point| Memoizer.cache(point)}

After our algorithm has finished using points, we want to get rid of these Memoizer objects. That‘s easy:

   points = points.collect{|point| point.self }

Or if you prefer (it is ever so slightly safer):

   points = points.collect{|point| Memoizer.uncache(point)}

References

See javathink.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-is-memoizer-and-why-should-you.html

Authors

• Erik Veenstra
• Thomas Sawyer

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Copyright (c) 2006 Erik Veenstra