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Discussion on: The agonizing necessity of cached calculations

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Franklin Chen

There's something called "incremental computation" or "self-adjusting computation" that hasn't made it to the mainstream yet because it's still research in progress, but I'm hoping the technology will start getting out there.

For example, Adapton: adapton.org/

Incremental: github.com/janestreet/incremental

Much of the academic research has been by Umut Acar: umut-acar.org/self-adjusting-compu...

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edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y

Do you have any examples of the syntax? I can't find anything clear from those links.

The descriptions however make it sound like reactive expressions.