why memoization is not a language feature?

Question

I was wondering... why memoization is not provided natively as a language feature by any language I know about?

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Answer 1

Clojure has a memoize function (http://richhickey.github.com/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#clojure.core/memoize):

memoize
function

Usage: (memoize f)

Returns a memoized version of a referentially transparent function. The
memoized version of the function keeps a cache of the mapping from arguments
to results and, when calls with the same arguments are repeated often, has
higher performance at the expense of higher memory use.