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0 pointswhalesalad6y ago0 comments

Essentially the OP is using the decorator to prevent the function call from ever being run more than one time. It’s at most once.

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faceplanted6y ago

More specifically, it prevents a call being repeated _in quick succession_, if there are enough calls in between repetitions it'll fall out of the cache and be reprocessed.

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