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Discussion on: Understand Memoization in 5 Minutes

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Stepan Zubashev

Plz avoid using JSON.stringify for memoization keys.

  • It doesn't support anything except json-likes things
  • it's extremely slow

But you can use:

  • Maps for objects keys
  • WeakMaps for objects avoiding GC
  • Custom non-object keys
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Nick Scialli (he/him)

I appreciate the note.

I did already call out that JSON.stringify is suboptimal in the article.

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Jay Bienvenu

Yet after you did that, you never gave an optimal alternative. You said it was "suboptimal" yet repeated it in your "optimal" solution.