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memoization
This term is a specialized technical neologism derived from the word memorandum, meaning to remember. It describes a specific form of caching where the return value of a function is stored based on its input parameters, ensuring that the computation is performed only once for any unique set of arguments.
In a professional software engineering context, it is distinguished from general caching by its tight coupling to function purity. While caching can refer to any temporary storage of data (like a web browser cache), memoization specifically refers to the optimization of recursive or computationally expensive functions to avoid redundant processing.
Meanings
An optimization technique used primarily in computer programming to speed up programs by storing the results of expensive function calls and returning the cached result when the same inputs occur again.
The developer implemented memoization to reduce the number of redundant recursive calls in the Fibonacci sequence algorithm.