Last night in #perl vhold and I got to talking about a module that automatically determined good memoization candidates and took the appropriate action.

I'm now seriously considering writing this module, but I'm having some trouble coming up with what should be memoized, as opposed to the Memoize docs which tell what shouldn't be memoized.

So Monks, I put it to you: what are measurable criteria for memoization? Memoizing everything that passes the don't memoize tests seems impractical, inefficent, and an overzealous application of memoization.

As an aside, I'm open to module name suggestions because I'm not too good at naming things...

Update Fixed typo in title

In reply to Good metrics for Memoization by Trizor

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