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Memoization in Go (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by lyda to c/golang
 

I'm curious what people are doing for memoization in #golang. I've looked around and haven't found great libraries for this which makes me wonder if I'm pursuing the wrong solution to a problem.

Caching the return values of functions based on the params has been useful to reduce load on downstream services, make things a bit faster on average and even add some level of consistency in functions that can be highly variable (which is an odd use case but nonethelass useful). But maybe there's a different pattern/idiom that's used in the Go ecosystem?

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[–] wyrmroot 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In applications where I’ve needed this, I’ve taken a manual approach. Structure the function to return a single Result struct (including an error field), develop a convention for mapping function inputs to a string, then add reads & writes to a map[string]*Result which allows me to return cached values as a shortcut. No idea if it’s the most efficient way, I’ve not actually considered finding a package to handle the process.

Edit: For more advanced behavior, what are your thoughts on the official memoize package?

[–] lyda 2 points 1 year ago

I suppose I should be clearer on the features I want. I'd want to be able to store my cache in memcached or redis and I want the cached data to expire. So for one call, I might want to keep it for five minutes, but another one can stick around for 24 hours.

The memorize package falls down there.

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