From 027f7709438d7663aa59c4f5b5e3b90ed0a65743 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: OngChia <chiarui.ong@c2sm.ethz.ch>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:49:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] cached_property for backend in Icon4pyRunConfig

---
 .../driver/src/icon4py/model/driver/icon4py_configuration.py  | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/model/driver/src/icon4py/model/driver/icon4py_configuration.py b/model/driver/src/icon4py/model/driver/icon4py_configuration.py
index 6d057a0edd..7bb7e9ffef 100644
--- a/model/driver/src/icon4py/model/driver/icon4py_configuration.py
+++ b/model/driver/src/icon4py/model/driver/icon4py_configuration.py
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 #
 # Please, refer to the LICENSE file in the root directory.
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
-
 import dataclasses
 import datetime
+import functools
 import logging
 
 from icon4py.model.atmosphere.diffusion import diffusion
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def __post_init__(self):
                 f"Available backends are {', '.join([f'{k}' for k in model_backends.BACKENDS.keys()])}"
             )
 
-    @property
+    @functools.cached_property
     def backend(self):
         return model_backends.BACKENDS[self.backend_name]