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·Dec 26, 2020
Dec 26, 2020
Great one! I'll be using this decorator in future needs. Thanks for sharing!
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·Dec 26, 2020
Glad you liked it
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·Dec 26, 2020
Dec 26, 2020
Did you try timing it against the built-in cache functions Python provides?
eg docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html
It’s indeed a good way to introduce how to create custom decorators, but for this caching purpose, I’d believe the built-in implementation will be faster.
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·Dec 27, 2020
The built in caching function has a limited storage space and unused cached elements are evicted with LRU policy. As both uses a dictionary to store the data cache access time would be same O(1) constant
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