[boost] Re: Memoization library

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-12 10:17:09

"Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto_at_[hidden]> writes:

> "David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:uwu929r3l.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
>> Jim Apple <japple_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>> > Is there any interest in a memoization library?  I've begun writting
>> > one for the following reasons:
>>
>> It might help some of us more ignorant folk if you'd post a definition
>> of "memoization".
>
> and of dynamic programming too and how it differs from memoization :-)

Especially if by "dynamic programming" you mean something other than an
optimization technique for finding the least cost path through a
search space.  That's the only meaning I know for the term.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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