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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liberti, Leo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2002
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0206010
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  • We perform a comparison of the performance and efficiency of four different function evaluation methods: black-box functions, binary trees, $n$-ary trees and string parsing. The test consists in evaluating 8 different functions of two variables $x,y$ over 5000 floating point values of the pair $(x,y)$. The outcome of the test indicates that the $n$-ary tree representation of algebraic expressions is the fastest method, closely followed by black-box function method, then by binary trees and lastly by string parsing.