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The overall benefit is that a function frequents called with the same set of inputs can save time by remembering the answer after computing it once -- sacrificing memory for computation time. In systems where memory (or storage depending on the implementation of storing old results) comes at a premium, memoization is not a good option. As long as memory is available and input sets are used repeatedly, memoization can save lots of computation time.