Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia

Utilizing the Caching.jl package

There are several packages that can make memoization easier. Some are mentioned here:

• Memoize.jl provides a @memoize macro. It's very easy to use.
• Anamnesis.jl provides a @anamnesis macro. It has more functionalities than Memoize.jl.
• Caching.jl was created with the ambition to provide more functionalities such as persistence to disk, compression, and cache size management.

Here, we can take a look at Caching.jl as it is developed more recently and has great features.

Let's build a memoized CSV file reader as follows:

The @cache macro makes a memoized version of the read_csv function. To confirm that a file ...