You don't seem to have tried keyword arguments – these are usually the best option if you have a large set of parameters to pass a single function. They may not fit your use case but they might be interesting to benchmark at least.
On 30 May 2014 10:42, Jon Norberg <jon.norb...@ecology.su.se> wrote: > There have been several posts about this, so I tried to compile what I > could find to compare speed and pretty coding: > > > http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38371278/Function%20parms%20passing%20speed%20test.ipynb > > Best speed is assigning values or variables inside the function > Second best is reassigning parameters from array for each parameter. The > @pack/@unpack macro also is pretty fast and much prettier > Third best is separate parameters and global assignment (longer function > call code if many parameters or/and just no no to use global?) > Slowest is using indexed array as parameters in function (but this is ugly > to read) and immutable types > > So I am wondering, did I miss any that improve speed/prettiness? > > Best, Jon > > > >
