diff --git a/.jules/bolt.md b/.jules/bolt.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+## 2024-08-29 - [Cache deterministic regex compilations]
+**Learning:** Deterministic regular expression compilation during text processing (e.g. NLP tasks) creates significant overhead when performed repeatedly, blocking the CPU. The `openmed.clinical.context` module builds heavy and complex alternated regular expressions out of cue lexicons over and over.
+**Action:** When working on NLP pipelines, aggressively identify regex compilation and text span transformations. Memoize expensive object constructions (like `_compiled_context_lexicon`) using `functools.lru_cache` to drastically reduce processing time.
diff --git a/openmed/openmed/clinical/context.py b/openmed/openmed/clinical/context.py
index 9fd11df..03779af 100644
--- a/openmed/openmed/clinical/context.py
+++ b/openmed/openmed/clinical/context.py
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 from dataclasses import dataclass, replace
 from datetime import date
 from typing import Any, Literal
+from functools import lru_cache
 
 from openmed.clinical.lexicons import (
     ClinicalCueLexicon,
@@ -154,6 +155,7 @@ class _CompiledContextLexicon:
     backward_context_cues: frozenset[str]
 
 
+@lru_cache(maxsize=32)
 def _compiled_context_lexicon(language: str | None = None) -> _CompiledContextLexicon:
     lexicon = get_clinical_cue_lexicon(language)
     token_boundaries = lexicon.token_boundaries