One performance-enhancement technique common to many languages, and one Python can use too, is memoization—caching the results of a function call so that future calls with the same inputs don ...

as well as the Tsyganenko-Sitnov 2004 model at arbitrary points in space (as a function of time) (Tsyganenko, 2013). Internally, these functions extract the input position data from tplot variables, ...

But Cython can also be used to incrementally accelerate Python functions, chiefly ones that perform math. The downside is that Cython uses its own peculiar syntax to work its magic, so porting ...