Vectorization Does Not Always Guarantee Better Performance

Vectorization is well-adopted for improving run-time performance. In a nutshell, it lets you operate data in batches instead of processing a single value at a time.

Although vectorization is extremely effective, you should know that it does not always guarantee performance gains. Moreover, vectorization is also associated with memory overheads.

As demonstrated above, the non-vectorized code provides better performance than the vectorized version.

P.S. 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲() is also a for-loop.

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