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2630. Memoize II

Description

Given a function fn, return a memoized version of that function.

memoized function is a function that will never be called twice with the same inputs. Instead it will return a cached value.

fn can be any function and there are no constraints on what type of values it accepts. Inputs are considered identical if they are === to each other.

 

Example 1:

Input: 
getInputs = () => [[2,2],[2,2],[1,2]]
fn = function (a, b) { return a + b; }
Output: [{"val":4,"calls":1},{"val":4,"calls":1},{"val":3,"calls":2}]
Explanation:
const inputs = getInputs();
const memoized = memoize(fn);
for (const arr of inputs) {
  memoized(...arr);
}

For the inputs of (2, 2): 2 + 2 = 4, and it required a call to fn().
For the inputs of (2, 2): 2 + 2 = 4, but those inputs were seen before so no call to fn() was required.
For the inputs of (1, 2): 1 + 2 = 3, and it required another call to fn() for a total of 2.

Example 2:

Input: 
getInputs = () => [[{},{}],[{},{}],[{},{}]] 
fn = function (a, b) { return ({...a, ...b}); }
Output: [{"val":{},"calls":1},{"val":{},"calls":2},{"val":{},"calls":3}]
Explanation:
Merging two empty objects will always result in an empty object. It may seem like there should only be 1 call to fn() because of cache-hits, however none of those objects are === to each other.

Example 3:

Input: 
getInputs = () => { const o = {}; return [[o,o],[o,o],[o,o]]; }
fn = function (a, b) { return ({...a, ...b}); }
Output: [{"val":{},"calls":1},{"val":{},"calls":1},{"val":{},"calls":1}]
Explanation:
Merging two empty objects will always result in an empty object. The 2nd and 3rd third function calls result in a cache-hit. This is because every object passed in is identical.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= inputs.length <= 105
  • 0 <= inputs.flat().length <= 105
  • inputs[i][j] != NaN

 

Solutions

Solution: Hash Table

  • Time complexity: O(n)
  • Space complexity: O(n)

 

JavaScript

js
/**
 * @param {Function} fn
 * @return {Function}
 */
function memoize(fn) {
  const resultSymbol = Symbol('result');
  const hashMap = new Map();

  return function (...params) {
    let currentMap = hashMap;

    for (const param of params) {
      if (!currentMap.has(param)) {
        currentMap.set(param, new Map());
      }

      currentMap = currentMap.get(param);
    }

    if (currentMap.has(resultSymbol)) {
      return currentMap.get(resultSymbol);
    }

    const result = fn(...params);

    currentMap.set(resultSymbol, result);

    return result;
  };
}

/**
 * let callCount = 0;
 * const memoizedFn = memoize(function (a, b) {
 *	 callCount += 1;
 *   return a + b;
 * })
 * memoizedFn(2, 3) // 5
 * memoizedFn(2, 3) // 5
 * console.log(callCount) // 1
 */

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