Thanks very much for the summary.
It is very interesting that assignFromArray is much faster than
indexedArray. Can anyone explain why?
On 05/30/2014 05:42 PM, Jon Norberg 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
