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HashLife: An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time (2006) (drdobbs.com)
72 points by kuwze on May 30, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Hashlife is still one of the nicest examples of memoization that I'm aware of, well worth studying how it works.


Memoization is borrowing time from the past, not bypassing/compressing it.


And what is compression but borrowing from the past?


Beautiful example of hash consing / immutable data structures.




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