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- "You mean caching?"

- "Nope, memoization."

- "Uh ok."



I like that it's not called caching because caching for me makes me think that there is some sort of eviction policy. I generally talk about "storing" data in "lookup tables" if I'm talking to someone not familiar with the jargon


Good point. Caching does usually refer to a temporary memory store.


IMO:

caching : memoization :: program performance : algorithm performance




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