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> I had to look up what memoization is- guess I’m getting rusty? But it turns out it’s just a new word for an old concept (caching). The term memoization was c
by hhmc 6y ago
> I had to look up what memoization is- guess I’m getting rusty? But it turns out it’s just a new word for an old concept (caching).
The term memoization was coined in 1968 and quite possibly predates the term cache (with respect to computing).
- fallingfrog 6y agoInteresting! I still maintain though that memoization is a special case of caching with n=1. :)