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I imagine with a little introspection, a notebook can figure out dependencies between cells and cascade as needed.



I guess the challenge is to do it efficiently in the presence of pointers, implicit or explicit.


There's great work on this called differential dataflow. You have to trace at a finer grain than cells, but can then avoid lots of recalculation.




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