Is it more efficient to pass an array to a function? Or to generate the (very simple) array for each call?

I have a function that will be called many times (it is used by an ode solver). Is it more time efficient to pass the variables x and y to it, and then generate

linspace(0,x,y)

from within, or to pass linspace(0,x,y) to the function?

Is there a general answer or rule of thumb?

[Rena Berman]

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Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Passing something as a parameter is the second fastest form of variable access, slower only than accessing a variable previously defined in the same function. It is certainly faster than re-creating the array.