Re: Memoizing Functions - yet another attempt

[Alek Paunov <alex@...>]

On 16.12.2013 03:04, Sven Olsen wrote:
> I use general memoizers (those that work on functions with 0-M arguments
> returning 0-N values) fairly frequently.  A string serialization approach
> can certainly work (though table and function argument handling gets a bit
> dicy).  But in the profiling tests I've done, an implementation that stores
> the arguments in a tree of tables is often significantly faster.  There's
> at least one such implementation already linked from the lua users wiki:
>
>    https://github.com/kikito/memoize.lua

I am just wondering, Is there something in common between arguments 
serialization/storing approaches for the memoization and the current 
implementation of the Lua Datalog engine [1][2]?

Kind Regards,
Alek

[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/datalog/code/ci/master/tree/
[2] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ramsdell/tools/datalog/datalog.html