[Zope-CMF] Re: RFC: browser views and memoization

[whit]

hi yuppie!

good to know about decorators as class vars and I guess that makes sense 
since they are created at import rather than instantiation.

> def memoize(meth):
>     def memoized_meth(self, *args):
>         if not hasattr(self, '_memo'):
>             self._memo = {}
>         sig = (meth, args)
>         if sig not in self._memo:
>             self._memo[sig] = meth(self, *args)
>         return self._memo[sig]
>     return memoized_meth
> 
> _memo is now an instance attribute and should be garbage collected with 
> the view instance. Does that look sane?
> 
> I don't care about kwargs and non-hashable args at the moment. I just 
> want to find out if using a memoize decorator is the right approach for 
> resolving the problem described in my initial mail.

I think this looks cleaner and more effective than the alternatives.

-w