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Title

The Engineer's Toolbox: Improving the Performance of Your Programs
Author

D. Jacobson
Journal / Anthology

The Mathematica Journal
Year: 1991
Volume: 1
Issue: 4
Page range: 24-27
Description

For small problems, one hardly notices the time it takes Mathematica to compute the result. But there are cases when the computation takes an unbearable amount of time. What can be done to speed programs up? We discuss here several general principles, giving applications that are not as well known as they deserve to be.
Subject

*Wolfram Technology > Programming
URL

http://www.mathematica-journal.com/issue/v1i4/