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Re:Node-fib: Fast non-blocking fibonacci server by Wilfred on Monday October 03, 2011 @05:36PM (#3068197)
That's a consequence of memoisation. It scales better than the original code though.

Still, the original point (node is cooperatively multitasked) was clear. Anything beyond that and I just want to reach for better Fibonacci algorithms.

Re:Node-fib: Fast non-blocking fibonacci server by logancapaldo on Monday October 03, 2011 @07:38PM (#3068693)
And this is why, any cache without an eviction policy and/or size limitation is bad (and memoization _is_ a cache). I shudder every time I see a "magical" memoization function whose interface is just

   memo function-to-memoize