Short-Lived, Tick-Bound Memoization in JavaScript

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I'm always looking for excuses to use queueMicrotask() , a relatively sparsely used function for inserting tasks at the end of the current call stack. I might've stumbled across one dealing with short-lived memoization. Humor me for a bit. You've likely seen some variation of this memoization function in JavaScript. Pass in an expensive function, and you get back a different function that'll cache…

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