import time import random from heapq import heappush, heappop class Memo(object): def __init__(self, size=1): """ Create a key-value data-structure that will never exceed `size` members. Memo evicts the least-recently-accessed elements from itself before adding inserting new key-value pairs. """ if size <= 0: raise Exception("We do not support an empty memo") self.xs = {} self.heap = [(0, None)] * size def contains(self, k): """ Return true if key `k` exists in the Memo. """ return k in self.xs def get(self, k): """ Return the memoized item at key `k`. """ # "touch" the element in the heap return self.xs[k] def set(self, k, v): """ Memoize value `v` at key `k`. """ _, to_evict = heappop(self.heap) if to_evict != None: del self.xs[to_evict] heappush(self.heap, (time.time(), k)) self.xs[k] = v memo = Memo(size=10) def f(x): """ Compute some mysterious, expensive function. """ if memo.contains(x): print("Hit.\t\tf({})".format(x)) return memo.get(x) else: print("Computing...\tf({})".format(x)) time.sleep(0.25) res = random.randint(0, 10) memo.set(x, res) return res [f(random.randint(0, 10)) for _ in range(10)]