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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-03-29 18:34:27 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-03-29 18:34:27 +0000
commit5189e6feed9c4945d8abd4abe4d194bcee21856d (patch)
tree477faaf7d4fac90ed740d053728483b5c64e6f3b /lib/Memoize.pm
parent2f12987e42cb5c4dc29bec6985e2491b4e06657d (diff)
downloadperl-5189e6feed9c4945d8abd4abe4d194bcee21856d.tar.gz
Upgrade to Memoize 1.00, from mjd, modulo the Memoize::Saves,
which one has to get from the CPAN distribution. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15614
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Memoize.pm')
-rw-r--r--lib/Memoize.pm39
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Memoize.pm b/lib/Memoize.pm
index 6907400e02..9f5c591d4f 100644
--- a/lib/Memoize.pm
+++ b/lib/Memoize.pm
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@
# same terms as Perl itself. If in doubt,
# write to mjd-perl-memoize+@plover.com for a license.
#
-# Version 0.66 $Revision: 1.18 $ $Date: 2001/06/24 17:16:47 $
+# Version 1.00 $Revision: 1.18 $ $Date: 2001/06/24 17:16:47 $
package Memoize;
-$VERSION = '0.66';
+$VERSION = '1.00';
# Compile-time constants
sub SCALAR () { 0 }
@@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ sub memoize {
$wrapper # Return just memoized version
}
+use warnings::register;
+
# This function tries to load a tied hash class and tie the hash to it.
sub _my_tie {
my ($context, $hash, $options) = @_;
@@ -176,8 +178,8 @@ sub _my_tie {
my $shortopt = (ref $fullopt) ? $fullopt->[0] : $fullopt;
return unless defined $shortopt && $shortopt eq 'TIE';
- carp("TIE option to memoize() is deprecated; use HASH instead") if $^W;
-
+ carp("TIE option to memoize() is deprecated; use HASH instead")
+ if warnings::enabled('deprecated');
my @args = ref $fullopt ? @$fullopt : ();
shift @args;
@@ -357,10 +359,11 @@ sub _crap_out {
=head1 NAME
-Memoize - Make your functions faster by trading space for time
+Memoize - Make functions faster by trading space for time
=head1 SYNOPSIS
+ # This is the documentation for Memoize 1.00
use Memoize;
memoize('slow_function');
slow_function(arguments); # Is faster than it was before
@@ -462,7 +465,7 @@ this:
Since there are relatively few objects in a picture, there are only a
few colors, which get looked up over and over again. Memoizing
-C<ColorToRGB> speeded up the program by several percent.
+C<ColorToRGB> sped up the program by several percent.
=head1 DETAILS
@@ -692,15 +695,18 @@ because all its results have been precomputed.
=item C<TIE>
-This option is B<strongly deprecated> and will be removed
-in the B<next> release of C<Memoize>. Use the C<HASH> option instead.
+This option is no longer supported. It is still documented only to
+aid in the debugging of old programs that use it. Old programs should
+be converted to use the C<HASH> option instead.
memoize ... [TIE, PACKAGE, ARGS...]
is merely a shortcut for
require PACKAGE;
- tie my %cache, PACKAGE, ARGS...;
+ { my %cache;
+ tie %cache, PACKAGE, ARGS...;
+ }
memoize ... [HASH => \%cache];
=item C<FAULT>
@@ -975,15 +981,12 @@ in Perl, and until it is resolved, memoized functions will see a
slightly different C<caller()> and will perform a little more slowly
on threaded perls than unthreaded perls.
-Here's a bug that isn't my fault: Some versions of C<DB_File> won't
-let you store data under a key of length 0. That means that if you
-have a function C<f> which you memoized and the cache is in a
-C<DB_File> database, then the value of C<f()> (C<f> called with no
-arguments) will not be memoized. Let us all breathe deeply and repeat
-this mantra: ``Gosh, Keith, that sure was a stupid thing to do.'' If
-this is a big problem, you can write a tied hash class which is a
-front-end to C<DB_File> that prepends <x> to every key before storing
-it.
+Some versions of C<DB_File> won't let you store data under a key of
+length 0. That means that if you have a function C<f> which you
+memoized and the cache is in a C<DB_File> database, then the value of
+C<f()> (C<f> called with no arguments) will not be memoized. If this
+is a big problem, you can supply a normalizer function that prepends
+C<"x"> to every key.
=head1 MAILING LIST