which should you run programs from

[[Mi...]]

should you run from characteristics or feature list

[[Ma...]]

It depends on your goals.

You can sort features to minimize and optimize travels between them and then run feature list. With same setup but characteristic machine will go left right and prolonging measurement time.

Also if you have many probe changes then optimizing for features will save you time ( if you sort your features by probe systems and probe tip )

I also heard of some sort of optimizer function for characteristic list.

In the end, it is up to the taste of the program author.