groovy.transform

Annotation Type Memoized

@Documented
@Retention(value=SOURCE)
@Target(value=METHOD)
public @interface Memoized

Method annotation that creates a cache for the results of the execution of the annotated method. Whenever the method is called, the mapping between the parameters and the return value is preserved in a cache making subsequent calls with the same arguments fast.

Example usage:

 class MemoizedExample {
 
     @Memoized
     int sum(int n1, int n2) {
         println "$n1 + $n2 = ${n1 + n2}" 
         n1 + n2
     }
 }
 

which becomes (approximately):

 class MemoizedExample {
 
     private final Closure memoizedSum = { int n1, int n2 ->
         private$method$memoizedSum(n1,n2)
     }.memoize()
 
     int sum(int n1, int n2) {
         memoizedSum(n1, n2)
     }

     private private$method$mzmoizeSum(int n1, int n2) {
         println "$n1 + $n2 = ${n1 + n2}"
         n1 + n2
     }
 }
 

Upon execution of this code:

 def instance = new MemoizedExample()
 println instance.sum(1, 2)
 println instance.sum(1, 2)
 println instance.sum(2, 3)
 println instance.sum(2, 3)
 

The following will be output:

 1 + 2 = 3
 3
 3
 2 + 3 = 5
 5
 5
 

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element and Description
int	maxCacheSize The maximum size the cache can grow to.
int	protectedCacheSize Number of cached return values to protect from garbage collection.

Element Detail

protectedCacheSize

public abstract int protectedCacheSize

Number of cached return values to protect from garbage collection.

Default:

0

maxCacheSize

public abstract int maxCacheSize

The maximum size the cache can grow to.

Default:

0