I'm making a project ( http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/17114670/ ) which does vast number of math calculations (sin/cos/sqrt/tan...) so it is quite slow. I was thinking how to speed up a little bit and had idea to use "ancient" strategy to put precalculated trig functions to lists. It was suprise to me, that using list with precalculated data is 2-3 times slower than using corresponding trig function. Why??