### Creating the `Settings` only once with `lru_cache` { #creating-the-settings-only-once-with-lru-cache }

Reading a file from disk is normally a costly (slow) operation, so you probably want to do it only once and then reuse the same settings object, instead of reading it for each request.

But every time we do:

```Python
Settings()
```

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    }

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## 0.28.0

* Implement dependency cache per request.
    * This avoids calling each dependency multiple times for the same request.
    * This is useful while calling external services, performing costly computation, etc.

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 * and on the Java module path.</p>
 *
 * <h2>Relationship with Java compiler standard location</h2>
 * This enumeration is closely related to the {@link JavaFileManager.Location} enumerations.
 * A difference is that the latter enumerates input and output files, while {@code JavaPathType}

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  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
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    if (element == null) {
      throw new NullPointerException("at index " + index);
    }
    return element;

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