RosettaCodeData/Task/Longest-common-subsequence/OCaml/longest-common-subsequence-2.ocaml
2015-02-20 00:35:01 -05:00

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let lcs xs ys =
let cache = Hashtbl.create 16 in
let rec lcs xs ys =
try Hashtbl.find cache (xs, ys) with
| Not_found ->
let result =
match xs, ys with
| [], _ -> []
| _, [] -> []
| x :: xs, y :: ys when x = y ->
x :: lcs xs ys
| _ :: xs_rest, _ :: ys_rest ->
let a = lcs xs_rest ys in
let b = lcs xs ys_rest in
if (List.length a) > (List.length b) then a else b
in
Hashtbl.add cache (xs, ys) result;
result
in
lcs xs ys