Tips and tricks to ensure that your Wolfram Language code executes as fast as possible. Covers efficiency, data types and structures, parallelization, use of built-in functions, compilation, caching, memoization, optimization.

Course Overview
Wolfram Language is an extremely flexible language, suitable for rapid prototyping and high-performance execution, but the flexibility to solve problems in many different ways can also lead to writing suboptimal code. This video will explore some of the key issues you can address to optimize your Wolfram Language code. It will also share tips and tricks to ensure that your code executes as fast as possible.Featured Products & Technologies: Wolfram Language and Wolfram Notebooks (available in Mathematica, Wolfram|One, and Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition)
You'll Learn To

Evaluate the efficiency of different approaches to the same outcome
Identify optimal data types and data structures for faster results
Parallelize code and decide when it is most effective to do so

Determine when to use built-in functions for maximum efficiency
Utilize compilation, caching and memoization for automatic optimization

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