performance multiple value vs multiple calls to value in ocean

Hello all.

Let us say that I to loop over samples of waveform wf, starting from point x1, in x2 intervals (time domain).

final_t is the last time point.

This leaves us with two main options.

Either one does for( i 0 floor( (final_point-x1 )/x2 ) )

     y_val=value( wf x1+i*final_point )

;rest of code below.

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Option 2 would be to create a samples waveform, and loop on its' elemnts:

wf_sampled = drGetWaveformYVec( values( wf x1 ?period x2 ) )

And then do:

for( i 0 sub1( len( wf_sampled ) )

    y_val=drGetElem( wf_sampled i )

 ; rest of code below.

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The value of val should, IMHO, be the same for each iteration. If not, I may have a bug.

Assuming that RAM is not a limiting factor, should there be a significant performance difference?

I would suspect that this may be the case, if there will a lot of samples, and value always needs to re-access the psfxl file.

Thanks,