Maybe not related, but does the following prove next is called once and only
once.
import qualified Data.ByteString as BS
import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as BSC
next =
do
nextcache <- BS.readFile "next.cache"
let nextint = readInt (BSC.unpack nextcache)
BS.writeFile "next.cache" (BSC.pack (show (nextint+1)))
return nextint
readInt :: String -> Int
readInt = read
I put a single character, 1 in the file "next.cache" when I run this through
ghci, and call next several times, I always get a 1. Whereas in the file
there is a 2.
I see that next is a trial of creating a function which returns different
things everytime its called, but it's in the IO monad, so that should be
doable.
When I re-run ghci, now it starts to give 2 everytime I call it. Does that
mean, it doesn't bother to re-read the file while we are in the same
process.
Hope it relates to the OP's question in some way :)
Best,
2009/12/16 Daniel Fischer
Am Mittwoch 16 Dezember 2009 15:49:54 schrieb michael rice:
Thanks all,
OK, so this definition of fib
fib 0 = 1 fib 1 = 1 fib n = fib (n-1) + fib (n-2)
would involve a lot of recomputation for some large n,
Where "large" can start as low as 20; 60 would be out of reach.
which memoization would eliminate?
Right.
Michael
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