very opinionated thoughts on the web, by tiff

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Caching with Memoization and the Singleton Pattern

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Reading this article on memoization which is the best explanation I've come across.

So it's caching using a function or object to store expensive computations in memory.

I think we could use a Singleton for this right?

UPDATE

After doing further research, a Singleton might not be the best pattern to use for Memoizing a function.

Also, a really great look at memoization and its performance metrics by Addy Osmani.

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