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__revision__ = "src/engine/SCons/Memoize.py 5023 2010/06/14 22:05:46 scons"

__doc__ = """Memoizer

A metaclass implementation to count hits and misses of the computed
values that various methods cache in memory.

Use of this modules assumes that wrapped methods be coded to cache their
values in a consistent way.  Here is an example of wrapping a method
that returns a computed value, with no input parameters:

    memoizer_counters = []                                      # Memoization

    memoizer_counters.append(SCons.Memoize.CountValue('foo'))   # Memoization

    def foo(self):

        try:                                                    # Memoization
            return self._memo['foo']                            # Memoization
        except KeyError:                                        # Memoization
            pass                                                # Memoization

        result = self.compute_foo_value()

        self._memo['foo'] = result                              # Memoization

        return result

Here is an example of wrapping a method that will return different values
based on one or more input arguments:

    def _bar_key(self, argument):                               # Memoization
        return argument                                         # Memoization

    memoizer_counters.append(SCons.Memoize.CountDict('bar', _bar_key)) # Memoization

    def bar(self, argument):

        memo_key = argument                                     # Memoization
        try:                                                    # Memoization
            memo_dict = self._memo['bar']                       # Memoization
        except KeyError:                                        # Memoization
            memo_dict = {}                                      # Memoization
            self._memo['dict'] = memo_dict                      # Memoization
        else:                                                   # Memoization
            try:                                                # Memoization
                return memo_dict[memo_key]                      # Memoization
            except KeyError:                                    # Memoization
                pass                                            # Memoization

        result = self.compute_bar_value(argument)

        memo_dict[memo_key] = result                            # Memoization

        return result

At one point we avoided replicating this sort of logic in all the methods
by putting it right into this module, but we've moved away from that at
present (see the "Historical Note," below.).

Deciding what to cache is tricky, because different configurations
can have radically different performance tradeoffs, and because the
tradeoffs involved are often so non-obvious.  Consequently, deciding
whether or not to cache a given method will likely be more of an art than
a science, but should still be based on available data from this module.
Here are some VERY GENERAL guidelines about deciding whether or not to
cache return values from a method that's being called a lot:

    --  The first question to ask is, "Can we change the calling code
        so this method isn't called so often?"  Sometimes this can be
        done by changing the algorithm.  Sometimes the *caller* should
        be memoized, not the method you're looking at.

    --  The memoized function should be timed with multiple configurations
        to make sure it doesn't inadvertently slow down some other
        configuration.

    --  When memoizing values based on a dictionary key composed of
        input arguments, you don't need to use all of the arguments
        if some of them don't affect the return values.

Historical Note:  The initial Memoizer implementation actually handled
the caching of values for the wrapped methods, based on a set of generic
algorithms for computing hashable values based on the method's arguments.
This collected caching logic nicely, but had two drawbacks:

    Running arguments through a generic key-conversion mechanism is slower
    (and less flexible) than just coding these things directly.  Since the
    methods that need memoized values are generally performance-critical,
    slowing them down in order to collect the logic isn't the right
    tradeoff.

    Use of the memoizer really obscured what was being called, because
    all the memoized methods were wrapped with re-used generic methods.
    This made it more difficult, for example, to use the Python profiler
    to figure out how to optimize the underlying methods.
"""

import types

# A flag controlling whether or not we actually use memoization.
use_memoizer = None

CounterList = []

class Counter(object):
    """
    Base class for counting memoization hits and misses.

    We expect that the metaclass initialization will have filled in
    the .name attribute that represents the name of the function
    being counted.
    """
    def __init__(self, method_name):
        """
        """
        self.method_name = method_name
        self.hit = 0
        self.miss = 0
        CounterList.append(self)
    def display(self):
        fmt = "    %7d hits %7d misses    %s()"
        print fmt % (self.hit, self.miss, self.name)
    def __cmp__(self, other):
        try:
            return cmp(self.name, other.name)
        except AttributeError:
            return 0

class CountValue(Counter):
    """
    A counter class for simple, atomic memoized values.

    A CountValue object should be instantiated in a class for each of
    the class's methods that memoizes its return value by simply storing
    the return value in its _memo dictionary.

    We expect that the metaclass initialization will fill in the
    .underlying_method attribute with the method that we're wrapping.
    We then call the underlying_method method after counting whether
    its memoized value has already been set (a hit) or not (a miss).
    """
    def __call__(self, *args, **kw):
        obj = args[0]
        if self.method_name in obj._memo:
            self.hit = self.hit + 1
        else:
            self.miss = self.miss + 1
        return self.underlying_method(*args, **kw)

class CountDict(Counter):
    """
    A counter class for memoized values stored in a dictionary, with
    keys based on the method's input arguments.

    A CountDict object is instantiated in a class for each of the
    class's methods that memoizes its return value in a dictionary,
    indexed by some key that can be computed from one or more of
    its input arguments.

    We expect that the metaclass initialization will fill in the
    .underlying_method attribute with the method that we're wrapping.
    We then call the underlying_method method after counting whether the
    computed key value is already present in the memoization dictionary
    (a hit) or not (a miss).
    """
    def __init__(self, method_name, keymaker):
        """
        """
        Counter.__init__(self, method_name)
        self.keymaker = keymaker
    def __call__(self, *args, **kw):
        obj = args[0]
        try:
            memo_dict = obj._memo[self.method_name]
        except KeyError:
            self.miss = self.miss + 1
        else:
            key = self.keymaker(*args, **kw)
            if key in memo_dict:
                self.hit = self.hit + 1
            else:
                self.miss = self.miss + 1
        return self.underlying_method(*args, **kw)

class Memoizer(object):
    """Object which performs caching of method calls for its 'primary'
    instance."""

    def __init__(self):
        pass

def Dump(title=None):
    if title:
        print title
    CounterList.sort()
    for counter in CounterList:
        counter.display()

class Memoized_Metaclass(type):
    def __init__(cls, name, bases, cls_dict):
        super(Memoized_Metaclass, cls).__init__(name, bases, cls_dict)

        for counter in cls_dict.get('memoizer_counters', []):
            method_name = counter.method_name

            counter.name = cls.__name__ + '.' + method_name
            counter.underlying_method = cls_dict[method_name]

            replacement_method = types.MethodType(counter, None, cls)
            setattr(cls, method_name, replacement_method)

def EnableMemoization():
    global use_memoizer
    use_memoizer = 1

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