[Chicago-talk] neat little optimization

[Andy_Bach at wiwb.uscourts.gov]

You might look at Memoize - I've not used it, but read a few articles and 
it does just what you're doing there but you only need to do:
 # This is the documentation for Memoize 1.01
             use Memoize;
             memoize('slow_function');
             slow_function(arguments);    # Is faster than it was before

It includes ways to freeze/thaw the cache and various tweaks to chose 
cache types, etc.

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