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- For example, if I wanted to run through a table with m rows and n columns. Is it faster if I check the values of the table row-wise or column-wise?
It's a simple question, and I feel like the order in which you run two loops would not matter in regards to how long it would take to run the script. You'd still have to run through ##m \cdot n## cells no matter the order. If you check column-wise, you will have to check all m entries in each of the n columns; similarly, if you check row-wise, you check all n entries in each of the m columns. I feel like it would take the same amount of time to run some code regardless of the order you choose to run a 'for' loop within a 'for' loop, for the sole reason that multiplication is a commutative operation, in other words.