Class gears.cache
Info:
- Copyright: 2015 Uli Schlachter
- Author: Uli Schlachter
Methods
| gears.cache:get (...) | Get an entry from the cache, creating it if it’s missing. |
| gears.cache:new (creation_cb) | Create a new cache object. |
Methods
- gears.cache:get (...)
-
Get an entry from the cache, creating it if it’s missing.
- ... Arguments for the creation callback. These are checked against the cache contents for equality.
Returns:
-
The entry from the cache
- gears.cache:new (creation_cb)
-
Create a new cache object. A cache keeps some data that can be
garbage-collected at any time, but might be useful to keep.
- creation_cb Callback that is used for creating missing cache entries.
Returns:
-
A new cache object.