Craft 3: Cache element query or variable assignment

Question

Is it possible to cache a variable assignment and/or an element query with TWIG in Craft 3? With Yii2 this is possible, but is there a wrapper to TWIG?

2 use cases:

{% set entries = craft.entries.someThingVerySlowHere() %}
{% set myObject = customVerySlowTwigFunction(...) %}

Why would I want to do that? Let's assume I have 2 blocks in my page, both make use of the variables assigned above, then I can not cache this within the block itself (where the {% cache %} tag belongs, unless I assign/query twice.

Answer 1

The request makes sense, but I thought that Craft did some magic to make sure that a duplicate query/variable-assignment wasn't an issue by re-using the query internally. I have no idea why I think that though.