Re^3: How will you use state declared variables in Perl6?

My point was that you'd use standard memoization for that, not your own mechanism. In other words: state will (as far as I can estimate) not be used much for memoization, because it's easier to just say "is memoized" or something alike.

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Re^4: How will you use state declared variables in Perl6? by TimToady (Parson) on Nov 06, 2006 at 06:07 UTC
That's currently specced as "`is cached`" though I don't believe it's implemented yet. However, even after it's implemented, it's not going to be smart enough from the type signature to know whether an incoming parameter is sparse or dense, and for something like fibonacci an array is going to provide a faster memo cache than a hash is. Maybe the memoizing code can be smart enough to figure that out heuristically, but that's not a sure thing at this point.	[reply]
Re^5: How will you use state declared variables in Perl6? by Juerd (Abbot) on Nov 06, 2006 at 09:32 UTC
I have to admit that I'm dreaming of a code profiler that also tries some optimization strategies, and picks the best for your program. Memoization is already heavily parametrized, and I expect the same things to be possible with "is cached". Perhaps "use a dense array" can be communicated in an argument passed to "is cached"? Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap', perl6_server => 'feather' }	[reply]