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doc: Expand and edit documentation for memoization (bug #60860)
author Arun Giridhar <arungiridhar@gmail.com>
date Fri, 30 Sep 2022 06:38:59 -0400
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {} {@var{mem_fcn_handle} =} memoize (@var{fcn_handle})
##
## Create a memoized version @var{mem_fcn_handle} of function
## @var{fcn_handle}.
##
## Each call to the memoized version @var{mem_fcn_handle} checks the inputs
## against an internally maintained table, and if the inputs have occurred
## previously, then the result of the function call is returned from the table
## itself instead of evaluating the full function again.  This speeds up the
## execution of functions that are called with the same inputs multiple times.
##
## For example, here we take a slow user-written function named
## @code{slow_fcn} and memoize it to a new handle @code{cyc}.
## The first executions of both versions take the same time, but the subsequent
## executions of the memoized version returns the previously computed value,
## thus reducing 2.4 seconds of runtime to only 2.4 milliseconds.  The final
## check verifies that the same result was returned from both versions.
##
## @example
## @group
## >> tic; @var{p} = slow_fcn (5040); toc
## Elapsed time is 2.41244 seconds.
## >> tic; @var{p} = slow_fcn (5040); toc
## Elapsed time is 2.41542 seconds.
##
## >> cyc = memoize (@@slow_fcn);
## >> tic; @var{r} = cyc (5040); toc
## Elapsed time is 2.42609 seconds.
## >> tic; @var{r} = cyc (5040); toc
## Elapsed time is 0.00236511 seconds.
##
## >> all (@var{p} == @var{r})
## ans = 1
## @end group
## @end example
##
## @seealso{clearAllMemoizedCaches}
## @end deftypefn

function mem_fcn_handle = memoize (fcn_handle)

  if (nargin != 1 || nargout > 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif
  if (! isa (fcn_handle, "function_handle"))
    error ("memoize: FCN_HANDLE must be a function handle");
  endif

  mem_fcn_handle = __memoize__ (fcn_handle);

endfunction

%!test
%! fcn1 = memoize (@sin);
%! assert (isa (fcn1, "matlab.lang.MemoizedFunction"));
%! fcn1 (pi);
%! fcn2 = memoize (@sin);
%! fcn2 (2*pi);
%! assert (isequal (fcn1, fcn2))

%!test
%! fcn = memoize (@rand);
%! a = fcn ();
%! b = fcn ();
%! assert (a, b);
%! fcn2 = memoize (@rand);
%! c = fcn2 ();
%! assert (a, c);

%!test
%! fcn = memoize (@plus);
%! fcn.stats;
%! stats (fcn);
%! clearCache (fcn);
%! fcn.clearCache;

# Test input validation
%!error memoize ();
%!error memoize (1, 2);
%!error [a, b] = memoize (1);
%!error memoize (1);