Re: [Visualpython-users] mag2()

[Bruce S. <bas...@un...>]

Sounds like a useful idea. I'll put this on a to-do list. Thanks!

Bruce Sherwood

At 05:00 PM 02/06/22 -0400, Arthur Siegel wrote:
>I am refactoring some code, focusing on performance
>issues.
>
>And find it quite common in my code  to be calculating the squared
>length of a vector.
>
>A look at cvisual finds mag2() already there as the underlying function
>for mag(), but it is not exposed to Python.
>
>So in doing mag(vector)**2 I am essentially calculating a
>square root(in C) and then squaring it (in Python).  Unpretty.
>
>I did the trivial work to expose mag2 as a Python function, and
>am using it, and hoping the change could be made in the "official"
>distribution
>
>Art
>
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