Automated Memoization for Parameter Studies Implemented in Impure Languages
Mirko Stoffers, Daniel Schemmel, Oscar Soria Dustmann, Klaus Wehrle · 2016
In computer simulations many processes are highly repetitive. These repetitions are amplified further when a parameter study is conducted where the same model is repeatedly executed with varying parameters, especially when performing multiple runs to increase statistical confidence. Inevitably, such repetitions result in the execution of identical computations, with identical code, identical input, and hence identical output. Performing computations redundantly wastes resources and the execution time of a parameter study could be reduced if the redundancies were avoided.