What you are talking about is nearly impossible, since just because a function returns the same data for the same parameters 99 times, it doesn't mean it will on the hundredth...

Take for example a function today_plus_x in a long running script... all of today today_plus_x(1) returns 2007/08/09... but after midnight it will return 2007/08/10... assume someone is calling this 1000 times a day... obviously it could use some help, but blanket memoization isn't going to do it.

Probably your best be would be something like Devel::DProf, something which analyzes your running code and wraps all function calls... at the end you print out a list of the calls that had multiple calls that returned the same data for the same inputs, maybe combined with how long a typical call takes, then you can suggest memoizations, but it'll have to be up to the programmer to decide if it is appropriate on a case by case basis.

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In reply to Re: Good metrics for Memoization by suaveant
in thread Good metrics for Memoization by Trizor

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