Fixed #21351 -- Replaced memoize with Python's lru_cache

Replaced the custom, untested memoize with a similar decorator from Python's
3.2 stdlib. Although some minor performance degradation (see ticket), it is
expected that in the long run lru_cache will outperform memoize once it is
implemented in C.

Thanks to EvilDMP for the report and Baptiste Mispelon for the idea of
replacing memoize with lru_cache.