Compared with their predecessors, modern computers are fast. Even wearable computing devices today boast processing power that only a few human generations ago would have placed them in the pantheon of the fastest computers on the planet. No amount of computational power, however, will do us any good if the program we write makes poor use of processor cycles and memory. Throughout the present work, we have focused on trying to “get the job done” and have written our programs with a focus on accomplishing the science or engineering task at hand rather than the speed at which the program accomplishes the task.
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