drawing lots of polygons versus drawing lots of lists-of-points-with-lines-turned-on versus drawing lots of parametric lines?.evaluating the derivative of an existing function versus explicitly writing the expression for the derivative and evaluating that?.defining a function ftot as f1+f2+f3 versus defining it by explicitly rewriting the expressions from the other functions?.using the built-in 'distance' function between two points versus writing out sqrt( (x-x1) 2 + (y-y1) 2 )? does this answer change if I'm going to be raising the distance to various powers like squaring or cubing it?.So! In the following comparisons, which gives better performance? I don't have the expertise to know whether the answers apply broadly or not. Many of the questions get at the same sorts of ideas, but again. I'm guessing the answer to some or even most of them is 'it doesn't really matter'. Below I have some questions, and if anybody knows or has suspicions about the answers to these, I would appreciate your take. I use Desmos to write a lot of physics simulations for my classes, and some of them require a LOT of repeated calculations, especially a graph which plots electric field vectors all over a lattice based on the positions of some point charges.Īlthough I have some rudimentary programming experience, I know basically nothing about how computers actually execute code and what works 'better' than other things.

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