In Python, the mere act of making a function call incurs a relatively large amount of overhead. If some function is called repeatedly in a tight loop, even if it isn’t a long-running function ...

Any function involving math operations, especially in Python, tends to be expensive. Caching and reusing the results is often orders of magnitude faster than recomputing the results each time.

If you want to learn Python, a number of free or low-cost resources can help you get started.

Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language. The general availability of Python support follows a ...