Remove Object Data to reduce computation time

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 25, 2016 at 7:26am

It would only make things faster if you don't in fact need that data. If however it is needed in order to compute something else, then removing it after the fact will only save some memory, not processor cycles.

Permalink Reply by Daniel on October 25, 2016 at 9:12am

So this data doesn't affect processing time? I heard that for example in Processing it is possible to cmopute these thousands of thousands of particles, because they don't have data attached to them.

Thank you for reply.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 25, 2016 at 9:47am

It takes processor time to compute new data. It takes memory space to store data. If you need to compute data because it is part of a process, then you cannot make it faster by removing the data afterwards.

The above is not entirely true in the case of previewable data. Bounding boxes will be calculated, which takes additional time.

Permalink Reply by Daniel on October 25, 2016 at 12:33pm

Just to wrap it up  - is it possible to remove data from objects?