【问题标题】:Is it possible to cache a value evaluated in a lambda expression?是否可以缓存在 lambda 表达式中评估的值?
【发布时间】:2010-09-09 03:29:16
【问题描述】:

在以下代码的 ContainsIngredients 方法中,是否可以缓存 p.Ingredients 值而不是多次显式引用它?这是一个相当简单的例子,我只是为了说明目的而编写的,但我正在处理的代码引用了 p 内部的值,例如。 p.InnerObject.ExpensiveMethod().Value

编辑: 我正在使用来自http://www.albahari.com/nutshell/predicatebuilder.html的 PredicateBuilder@

public class IngredientBag
{
    private readonly Dictionary<string, string> _ingredients = new Dictionary<string, string>();

    public void Add(string type, string name)
    {
        _ingredients.Add(type, name);
    }

    public string Get(string type)
    {
        return _ingredients[type];
    }

    public bool Contains(string type)
    {
        return _ingredients.ContainsKey(type);
    }
}

public class Potion
{
    public IngredientBag Ingredients { get; private set;}
    public string Name {get; private set;}        

    public Potion(string name) : this(name, null)
    {

    }

    public Potion(string name, IngredientBag ingredients)
    {
        Name = name;
        Ingredients = ingredients;
    }

    public static Expression<Func<Potion, bool>> 
        ContainsIngredients(string ingredientType, params string[] ingredients)
    {
        var predicate = PredicateBuilder.False<Potion>();
        // Here, I'm accessing p.Ingredients several times in one 
        // expression.  Is there any way to cache this value and
        // reference the cached value in the expression?
        foreach (var ingredient in ingredients)
        {
            var temp = ingredient;
            predicate = predicate.Or (
                p => p.Ingredients != null &&
                p.Ingredients.Contains(ingredientType) &&
                p.Ingredients.Get(ingredientType).Contains(temp));
        }

        return predicate;
    }

}


[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
    var potions = new List<Potion>
    {
        new Potion("Invisibility", new IngredientBag()),
        new Potion("Bonus"),
        new Potion("Speed", new IngredientBag()),
        new Potion("Strength", new IngredientBag()),
        new Potion("Dummy Potion")
    };

    potions[0].Ingredients.Add("solid", "Eye of Newt");
    potions[0].Ingredients.Add("liquid", "Gall of Peacock");
    potions[0].Ingredients.Add("gas", "Breath of Spider");

    potions[2].Ingredients.Add("solid", "Hair of Toad");
    potions[2].Ingredients.Add("gas", "Peacock's anguish");

    potions[3].Ingredients.Add("liquid", "Peacock Sweat");
    potions[3].Ingredients.Add("gas", "Newt's aura");

    var predicate = Potion.ContainsIngredients("solid", "Newt", "Toad")
        .Or(Potion.ContainsIngredients("gas", "Spider", "Scorpion"));

    foreach (var result in 
                from p in potions
                where(predicate).Compile()(p)
                select p)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(result.Name);
    }
}

【问题讨论】:

    标签: c# linq lambda predicate


    【解决方案1】:

    你考虑过Memoization吗?

    基本思路是这样的;如果你有一个昂贵的函数调用,有一个函数将在第一次调用时计算昂贵的值,但之后返回一个缓存版本。函数如下所示;

    static Func<T> Remember<T>(Func<T> GetExpensiveValue)
    {
        bool isCached= false;
        T cachedResult = default(T);
    
        return () =>
        {
            if (!isCached)
            {
                cachedResult = GetExpensiveValue();
                isCached = true;
            }
            return cachedResult;
    
        };
    }
    

    这意味着你可以写这个;

        // here's something that takes ages to calculate
        Func<string> MyExpensiveMethod = () => 
        { 
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000); 
            return "that took ages!"; 
        };
    
        // and heres a function call that only calculates it the once.
        Func<string> CachedMethod = Remember(() => MyExpensiveMethod());
    
        // only the first line takes five seconds; 
        // the second and third calls are instant.
        Console.WriteLine(CachedMethod());
        Console.WriteLine(CachedMethod());
        Console.WriteLine(CachedMethod());
    

    作为一般策略,它可能会有所帮助。

    【讨论】:

    • 这是我通常会做的事情,但在这种情况下,我无权访问源代码。我给出的示例仅用于说明目的
    【解决方案2】:

    您不能简单地将布尔表达式写在您从 lambda 调用的单独静态函数中 - 将 p.Ingredients 作为参数传递...

    private static bool IsIngredientPresent(IngredientBag i, string ingredientType, string ingredient)
    {
        return i != null && i.Contains(ingredientType) && i.Get(ingredientType).Contains(ingredient);
    }
    
    public static Expression<Func<Potion, bool>>
                    ContainsIngredients(string ingredientType, params string[] ingredients)
    {
        var predicate = PredicateBuilder.False<Potion>();
        // Here, I'm accessing p.Ingredients several times in one 
        // expression.  Is there any way to cache this value and
        // reference the cached value in the expression?
        foreach (var ingredient in ingredients)
        {
            var temp = ingredient;
            predicate = predicate.Or(
                p => IsIngredientPresent(p.Ingredients, ingredientType, temp));
        }
    
        return predicate;
    }
    

    【讨论】:

    • 我可以做到,但就像我说的,这是一个相当微不足道的例子。我正在处理的示例使用深度嵌套的值,通常向下几个级别并通过昂贵的方法调用获得。看来我将不得不诉诸拆分谓词...
    • 我的错误。我已经删除了我的错误答案。
    【解决方案3】:

    好吧,在这种情况下,如果你不能使用记忆,你会受到相当的限制,因为你实际上只能将堆栈用作缓存:你无法在你的范围内声明一个新变量'会需要。我能想到的(我并不是说它会很漂亮)会做你想做的,但保留你需要的可组合性就像......

    private static bool TestWith<T>(T cached, Func<T, bool> predicate)
    {
        return predicate(cached);
    }
    
    public static Expression<Func<Potion, bool>>
                    ContainsIngredients(string ingredientType, params string[] ingredients)
    {
        var predicate = PredicateBuilder.False<Potion>();
        // Here, I'm accessing p.Ingredients several times in one 
        // expression.  Is there any way to cache this value and
        // reference the cached value in the expression?
        foreach (var ingredient in ingredients)
        {
            var temp = ingredient;
            predicate = predicate.Or (
                p => TestWith(p.Ingredients,
                    i => i != null &&
                         i.Contains(ingredientType) &&
                         i.Get(ingredientType).Contains(temp));
        }
    
        return predicate;
    }
    

    您可以在需要时将多个 TestWith 调用的结果组合成一个更复杂的布尔表达式 - 为每个调用缓存适当的昂贵值 - 或者您可以将它们嵌套在作为第二个参数传递的 lambda 中,以处理复杂的深度层次结构。

    但阅读代码会非常困难,而且由于您可能会在所有 TestWith 调用中引入更多堆栈转换,因此它是否会提高性能将取决于您的 ExpensiveCall() 的成本。

    请注意,正如另一个答案所建议的那样,原始示例中不会有任何内联,因为据我所知,表达式编译器没有进行该级别的优化。

    【讨论】:

      【解决方案4】:

      在这种情况下我会说不。我假设编译器可以计算出它使用了 p.Ingredients 变量 3 次,并将变量保持在堆栈或寄存器或它使用的任何东西附近。

      【讨论】:

        【解决方案5】:

        Turbulent Intellect 给出了完全正确的答案。

        我只是想建议您可以从您正在使用的类型中去除一些空值和异常,以便更友好地使用它们。

            public class IngredientBag
            {
              private Dictionary<string, string> _ingredients = 
        new Dictionary<string, string>();
              public void Add(string type, string name)
              {
                _ingredients[type] = name;
              }
              public string Get(string type)
              {
                return _ingredients.ContainsKey(type) ? _ingredients[type] : null;
              }
              public bool Has(string type, string name)
              {
                return name == null ? false : this.Get(type) == name;
              }
            }
        
            public Potion(string name) : this(name, new IngredientBag())    {    }
        

        那么,如果你有这个结构中的查询参数...

        Dictionary<string, List<string>> ingredients;
        

        你可以这样写查询。

        from p in Potions
        where ingredients.Any(i => i.Value.Any(v => p.IngredientBag.Has(i.Key, v))
        select p;
        

        PS,为什么是只读的?

        【讨论】:

        • readonly 修饰符提示编译器 _ingredients 变量只被写入一次。它有助于编译器优化代码。
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