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shajznnckfke
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Google Interview Questions Deconstructed: The Knig...
The term is over 50 years old:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization#Etymology
Probably been used in CS longer than “caching”.
AnimalMuppet
on Oct 7, 2020
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If you include hardware in CS, no, caching is older. If you don't, I'm not sure.
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Probably been used in CS longer than “caching”.