I've read
http://www.sitepoint.com/implementing-memoization-in-javascript/
Automatic Memoization
In all of the previous examples, the functions were explicitly modified to add memoization. It is also possible to implement a memoization infrastructure without modifying the functions at all. This is useful because it allows the function logic to be implemented separately from the memoization logic. This is done by creating a utility function which takes a function as input and applies memoization to it. The following memoize() function takes a function, “func”, as input. memoize() returns a new function which wraps a caching mechanism around “func”. Note that this function does not handle object arguments. In order to handle objects, a loop is required which would inspect each argument individually and stringify as needed.
function memoize(func) {
var memo = {};
var slice = Array.prototype.slice;
return function() {
var args = slice.call(arguments);
if (args in memo)
return memo[args];
else
return (memo[args] = func.apply(this, args));
}
}
using this, I did
var fib = function(n)
{
if (n <= 1)
{
return 1; // as the Fib definition in Math
}
else
{
return fib(n - 2) + fib(n - 1); // as the Fib definition in Math
}
};
log(memoize(fib)(43));
log(fib(43));
However, I confirmed there's no effect.
I also tried a npm library for the same purpose,
https://github.com/medikoo/memoize
and
var memoize = require('memoizee');
log(memoize(fib)(43));
log(fib(43));
The result, same.
What do I miss, and how to fix and make it work?
Thanks!
EDIT
require('memoizee');
var fib = function(n)
{
if (n <= 1)
{
return 1; // as the Fib definition in Math
}
else
{
return fib(n - 2) + fib(n - 1); // as the Fib definition in Math
}
};
var generator = function(f)
{
return memoize(f);
};
var _fib = generator(fib);
console.log(_fib(40)); //no effect