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Name: Memoize |
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What: Transparently speed up functions by caching return values. |
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Version: 1.00 |
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Author: Mark-Jason Dominus (mjd-perl-memoize+@plover.com) |
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How to build me: |
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perl Makefile.PL |
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make |
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make test |
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There's a very small chance that the tests in speed.t and |
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expire_module_t.t might fail because of clock skew or bizarre system |
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load conditions. If the tests there fail, rerun them and see if the |
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problem persists. |
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If the tests work, |
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make install |
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If not, please send me a report that mentions which tests failed. |
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The address is: mjd-perl-memoize+@plover.com. |
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What's new since 0.66: |
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Minor documentation and test changes only. |
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What's new since 0.65: |
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Test changes only. |
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0.62 was the fist version that would be distributed with Perl. |
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I got so absorbed in integrating it that I wrote some tests |
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that used Time::HiRes. I knew this was safe because |
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Time::HiRes is also distributed with the same versions of |
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Perl. I totally forgot that some people will get the module |
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off of CPAN without Perl and they may not have TIme::HiRes. |
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Sorry! |
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What's new since 0.62: |
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N O T I C E ! |
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**************************************************************** |
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** The TIE option is now strongly deprecated. It will be ** |
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** permanently removed in the NEXT release of Memoize. ** |
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** Please convert all extant software to use HASH instead. ** |
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** See the manual for details. ** |
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I'm sorry about this. I hate making incompatible changes. But as of |
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v0.65, Memoize is included in the Perl core. It is about to become |
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much more difficult to make incompatible interface changes; if I don't |
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get rid of TIE now, I may not get another chance. |
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TIE presented serious problems. First, it had a bizarre syntax. But |
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the big problem was that it was difficult and complicated for |
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expiration manager authors to support; evern expiration manager had to |
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duplicate the logic for handling TIE. HASH is much simpler to use, |
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more powerful, and is trivial for expiration managers to support. |
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Many long-awaited cleanups and bug fixes. |
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Memoize now works under threaded perl |
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Slow tests speeded up. More test file improvements. |
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Long-standing LIST_CACHE bug cleared up---it turns out that there |
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never was a bug. I put in tests for it anyway. |
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Manual increased. |
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